Bug 1471224

Summary:	Home directory for ganglia user not created when package is installed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Adam Lanier <skeeved>
Component:	ganglia	Assignee:	Nick <nick>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	epel7	CC:	jose.p.oliveira.oss, k.georgiou, nick, terje.rosten
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Description Adam Lanier 2017-07-14 17:58:36 UTC

Description of problem:

Installing ganglia, ganglia-gmond doesn't create the specified home directory for the ganglia user, /var/lib/ganglia.


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

3.7.2

How reproducible:

Install ganglia, ganglia-gmond, ganglia-gmond-python.  Verify that /var/lib/ganglia is the home directory specified for the ganglia user:

grep ganglia /etc/passwd

ganglia:x:993:990:Ganglia Monitoring System:/var/lib/ganglia:/sbin/nologin

Verify that /var/lib/ganglia does not exist:

ls -l /var/lib/ganglia

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ganglia, ganglia-gmond, ganglia-gmond-python
2. Verify that /var/lib/ganglia is the home directory specified for the ganglia user
3. Verify that /var/lib/ganglia does not exist

Actual results:

/var/lib/ganglia does not exist

Expected results:

/var/lib/ganglia does exist

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2020-10-08 22:13:50 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fee165c6a2 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fee165c6a2

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2020-10-09 00:02:45 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fee165c6a2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fee165c6a2

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-10-23 22:50:40 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fee165c6a2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.