Bug 124813

Summary:	/proc/1/environ truncates HOME to OME
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stephen Walton <stephen.walton>
Component:	sysvinit	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Fixed In Version:	2.85-28	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Stephen Walton 2004-05-30 17:23:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
This is actually from the apcupsd-users mailing list.  Execute as root
/proc/1/environ truncates HOME to OME for some reason.  This can mess
up scripts at init time which need a correct HOME directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
SysVinit-2.85-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/1/environ

The output will read
 
OME=/
TERM=linux

instead of the correct
 
HOME=/
TERM=linux
   

Actual Results:  Truncated HOME to OME

Expected Results:  HOME should have been printed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-06-01 05:07:30 UTC

Actually, I'm not seeing HOME set at all in init's environment here.

Comment 2 Stephen Walton 2004-06-01 18:51:26 UTC

Odd.  I see OME in init's environment on all of my FC1 systems, both
those installed from the original FC1 CDs and then kept up to date via
Yum and those which I installed from the KRUD distribution.  In any
event, if I understood the point of the post to apcupsd-users, HOME
needs to be set in init's environment for apcupsd, at least, to work
properly.  I was going to link to the original post here, but the
apcupsd-users mailing list archive on sourceforge seems not to have
been updated since May 28.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2004-06-03 14:40:04 UTC

While I'm working into integrating it in the head branch, care to try
the patch in bug 125172?

It should fix it for you.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2004-06-03 14:48:29 UTC

Should be fixed in 2.85-28.

Comment 5 Stephen Walton 2004-06-03 23:22:28 UTC

The suggested patch fixes the problem, thanks.

Comment 6 David Lawrence 2007-06-22 02:18:34 UTC

Package name is now sysvinit in latest Fedora.