From 14fe2df9ae9f436f2641448b2ae16446d9e74fed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Drew Kerrigan <dr.kerrigan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:30:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] adding HOME variable check + changing WHOAMI to be more
 platform friendly

---
 priv/base/env.sh | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/priv/base/env.sh b/priv/base/env.sh
index bcaf475..d05bb66 100755
--- a/priv/base/env.sh
+++ b/priv/base/env.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,14 @@ fi
 # Registered process to wait for to consider start a success
 WAIT_FOR_PROCESS={{runner_wait_process}}
 
-WHOAMI=`whoami`
+WHOAMI=`id -un`
+
+# erlexec requires HOME to be set. The username needs to be a
+# unquoted literal because of the tilde expansion, hence the
+# usage of eval.
+if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
+    export HOME=`eval echo "~$WHOAMI"`
+fi
 
 # Echo to stderr on errors
 echoerr() { echo "$@" 1>&2; }