Set SHELL since the generic jabber user used on Gentoo for jabber servers doesn't have a valid shell set by default and fix EXEC_CMD otherwise it fails with "This account is currently not available" again due to jabber not having a valid shell. Also, workaround the assumption that jabber's $HOME is a directory when instead it defaults to /dev/null on Gentoo. --- a/ejabberdctl.template 2016-01-12 11:07:58.000000000 +0000 +++ b/ejabberdctl.template.new 2016-02-15 21:36:27.508297627 +0000 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ EPMD={{bindir}}/epmd INSTALLUSER={{installuser}} ERL_LIBS={{libdir}} +SHELL=/bin/sh # check the proper system user is used if defined if [ "$INSTALLUSER" != "" ] ; then @@ -23,11 +24,11 @@ for GID in `id -G`; do if [ $GID -eq 0 ] ; then INSTALLUSER_HOME=$(getent passwd "$INSTALLUSER" | cut -d: -f6) - if [ -n "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" ] && [ ! -d "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" ] ; then + if [ -n "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" ] && [ ! -e "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" ] ; then mkdir -p "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" chown "$INSTALLUSER" "$INSTALLUSER_HOME" fi - EXEC_CMD="su $INSTALLUSER -c" + EXEC_CMD="su $INSTALLUSER -p -c" fi done if [ `id -g` -eq `id -g $INSTALLUSER` ] ; then @@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ DATETIME=`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` ERL_CRASH_DUMP=$LOGS_DIR/erl_crash_$DATETIME.dump ERL_INETRC=$ETC_DIR/inetrc +HOME=$SPOOL_DIR # define mnesia options MNESIA_OPTS="-mnesia dir \"\\\"$SPOOL_DIR\\\"\" $MNESIA_OPTIONS" @@ -159,6 +161,8 @@ export CONTRIB_MODULES_PATH export CONTRIB_MODULES_CONF_DIR export ERL_LIBS +export HOME +export SHELL shell_escape() {