Dracut on reboot

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 9 08:14:25 UTC 2013


Tim:
>> The tilde refers to your homespace.  So, for whoever's logged on, a
>> file path like this ~/example.text refers to an example.text file in
>> the root of *their* homespace.


Richard Vickery:
> You have made my exact point in you're first two lines. who - or where
> - is dracut's homespace.  On a  dracut boot, it doesn't appear that I
> am logged it as my home user.

Well, if you're logged in as the user that you're modifying, you don't
even need to know.  Writing a ~/file puts the "file" where it needs to
be.  *That* user's home space.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't
use Windows.





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