Re: In Diego (maybe DEA also) why is $HOME /home/vcap/app and not /home/vcap?

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Eric Malm <emalm@...> #4832 Hey, Mike, HOME is also `/home/vcap/app` on the DEAs, and Diego has replicated that execution contract for buildpack apps (the buildpack-app-lifecycle's launcher sets HOME to that value before exec'ing the start command). Spelunking through the DEA codebase, it seems to have been that way since buildpack support was introduced: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/dea_ng/commit/43ea42bcbff09175cafa65c2e84bd36fd505be07 is the earliest reference I could find to it. Since /home/vcap/app is also symlinked to /app, this may be to keep compatibility with Heroku conventions around the HOME env var. Someone who was around in March 2013 (or who knows Heroku better! :) ) might be able to answer that more definitively, though. Best, Eric toggle quoted messageShow quoted text On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Mike Youngstrom <youngm(a)gmail.com> wrote: This burned me today because I was attempting to put fonts into the home directory identified by the java system property "user.home" (which is /home/vcap) instead of the environment variable $HOME which is /var/vcap/app. This is especially confusing because SSH home is "/home/vcap". Anyone have any context into why $HOME for the app is /var/vcap/app and not /var/vcap? Thanks, Mike attachment.html
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