From 9196f1967860e56c2114f3871914587655320c63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:15:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note to Apache about add-ons

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@5917 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
---
 introduction/welcome/changelog.xml | 4 ++++
 server/major/apache.xml            | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 7f8e113c6b..dd767a451b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>April 22nd, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Added a note to Apache that the apache
+          user's home directory of /dev/null may fail for some add-ons.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to fetchmail-6.3.4.</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/server/major/apache.xml b/server/major/apache.xml
index 1da84633e4..0767a4a363 100644
--- a/server/major/apache.xml
+++ b/server/major/apache.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@
 useradd -c "Apache Server" -d /dev/null -g apache \
         -s /bin/false -u 25 apache</userinput></screen>
 
+    <note><para>The above command directs the <application>Apache</application>
+    user's home directory to <filename>/dev/null</filename>.  This may not work
+    for some add-ons such as the <ulink
+    url='http://www.viewvc.org/'><application>ViewVC</application></ulink> that
+    is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories.
+    See the User Notes for details for specific applications.</para></note> 
+
     <para>The following patch modifies the layout of destination
     directories and among them, the build directory at
     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/apache/build</filename>. This