I ran in to a similar problem. In my case, the issue was that I have an encrypted home directory, and needed files like ~/.procmailrc to be available whether or not I was logged in.
The ugly hack I eventually went to was to have three sets of home directories: /home.enc/$USER contains encrypted home directories /home.unenc/$USER contains files that a user wants to have available whether logged in or not. /home/$USER is the home directory; when the encrypted home directory is mounted it appears as /home/$USER. When the encrypted home directory is not mounted, however, /home/$USER contains a small number of symbolic links to files in /home.unenc/$USER. When the encrypted home directory is mounted over it, it also has symbolic links into /home.unenc/$USER Like I said, an ugly hack. But it works... -- Joe Pfeiffer http://pfeifferfamily.net/ 1440 Tierra del Sol Dr 575.525.2764 (H) Las Cruces, NM 88007-5548 575.496.3501 (C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
