On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:01:01PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote: > David Elze wrote: > >On the other hand, 'flowd -d' breaks with "chdir(/nonexistent): No such > >file or directory" though the only configurable directory seems to be > >the one in /etc/flowd.conf which is correct. > > > > looks like the home directory of the unprivileged flowd _user_. > > you should try 'usermod -d <flowd-directory> <flowd-user>' or even > 'usermod -d /var/empty <flowd-user>'. i don't know the correct values > for flowd, just try.
Or, probably better, force flowd to use another directory than the one from /etc/passwd. Joachim