Bug 2056527
| Summary: | "%h" doesn't evaluate to home directory | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Renaud Métrich <rmetrich> |
| Component: | systemd | Assignee: | David Tardon <dtardon> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.5 | CC: | dtardon, jamacku, systemd-maint-list |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Bugfix, Reproducer, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | systemd-239-61.el8 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2022-11-08 10:49:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 2056542 | ||
fix merged to github master branch -> https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/systemd-rhel8/pull/263 Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (systemd bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:7727 |
Description of problem: From systemd.unit() manpage, %h is supposed to evaluate to home dir: -------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< -------- ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤ │"%h" │ User home directory │ This is the home directory of │ │ │ │ the user running the service │ │ │ │ manager instance. In case of │ │ │ │ the system manager this │ │ │ │ resolves to "/root". │ ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤ -------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< -------- Unfortunately this doesn't work, "%h" always evaluates to "/", as shown in the example below: -------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< -------- # systemctl cat test # /etc/systemd/system/test.service [Service] ExecStart=/bin/echo "%%h evaluates to %h" # systemctl start test # systemctl status test [...] [...] echo[1413]: %h evaluates to / [...] -------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< -------- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-239-51 How reproducible: Always, see above.