From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Nov 27 04:16:25 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BD516A4CE
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:16:25 -0800 (PST)
Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com
	[66.111.4.26])	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CCE43FCB
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:16:24 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from freebsd@soith.com)
Received: from server1.messagingengine.com (server1.internal [10.202.2.132])
	by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7C54491F0;
	Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:16:23 -0500 (EST)
Received: by server1.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99)
	id BB77D42BC5; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:16:22 -0500 (EST)
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2  (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03)
From: "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:16:22 -0800
X-Sasl-Enc: 6OzZGVUtBUq5eHB9FcLSfA 1069935382
Message-Id: <20031127121622.BB77D42BC5@server1.messagingengine.com>
Subject: HOME= for root during boot?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:16:26 -0000

During boot (stuff run from rc.local) the enviornment has HOME=/
After boot root logins have HOME=/root.

Seems like a bug to me... left over from the days when HOME for root was
/.  In my case I was trying to run some mysql commands which did not work
because there was no /.my.cnf.  After boot testing them did work because
it looked at /root/.my.cnf

Should the line in /etc/rc:
HOME=/
change to:
HOME=/root

FreeBSD xxx.com 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #1: Mon Nov 10 04:05:00
EST 2003     root@xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUMBA  i386