Subject: bug#721: Jabberd2 start failture on devuan

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:39:48 +0000

Control: tags -1 patch

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:24:03AM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote: 
>  - What group is jabber trying to run as? It looks[2] as if it should be
>    jabber. Does the group exist? It should be created in the preinst[3]

I have had a quick look at this and the USER and GROUP environment variables
need to be exported so that they are passed to the scripts in
/etc/jabberd2/component.d.

USER is already an exported variable, so actually works either way, but GROUP
isn't so fails.

Try this.

diff -u /home/mark/Downloads/jabberd2.init /home/mark/Downloads/jabberd2.init.new
--- /home/mark/Downloads/jabberd2.init	2023-01-11 19:36:24.104716244 +0000
+++ /home/mark/Downloads/jabberd2.init.new	2023-01-11 19:37:12.319574513 +0000
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 set -e
 
 # user and group
-USER=jabber
-GROUP=jabber
+export USER=jabber
+export GROUP=jabber
 test -f /etc/default/jabberd2 && . /etc/default/jabberd2
 
 COMPONENTDPATH=/etc/jabberd2/component.d

Diff finished.  Wed Jan 11 19:38:28 2023