MacPorts 2.0.0-beta2 now available for testing

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jul 5 17:11:04 PDT 2011


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.)

- Josh


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