On Jul 5, 2011, at 19:11, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2011-7-6 10:03 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jul 5, 2011, at 17:08, Joshua Root wrote: >> >>> * the user is created with home dir /var/empty rather than /dev/null >> >> For users who already installed 2.0.0-beta1, do they need to edit the user >> manually to make this change or will MacPorts or its installer do this >> automatically? > > The former. The command to do that is: > > sudo dscl . -create /Users/macports NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty > > I personally never noticed any problems with it being /dev/null though. > (I've actually just changed it now.)
And I'm not convinced setting it to /var/empty is a great solution. The issue in response to which you changed it from /dev/null to /var/empty was about a program's inability to create some sort of directory in home for its settings. So now it's going to create that settings directory inside /var/empty, which seems wrong; that directory *should* remain empty. I don't know if the OS cleans it out at some point. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
