stuff keeps creating /.cache

[iamveryverystupid]

i know this isn't exactly dinit's fault, but some daemons create .cache in / and its really annoying, i have a lot of random services and daemons and they do this, but is there a way to stop them from making /.cache or put it somewhere else?
it doesn't happen with other init systems like systemd or openrc

[davmac314]

All I can suggest is that maybe these daemons are trying to put something under $HOME or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, or some other location specified by an environment variable, and that variable isn't being set. Perhaps try load-options: export-passwd-vars in the service description file.

[iamveryverystupid]

the files now go into /root/.cache, but /.cache is still being created even though it is empty

[davmac314]

Are you perhaps running as root daemons that are not intended to be run as root? If you run them as a non-root user then they shouldn't have permission to write in /.

[iamveryverystupid]

idk im not sure, what user should they be ran as? is there like a default daemon/service user? for example, kmscon puts mesa cache , and reflector puts mirrorlist status.json. on systemd, reflector puts it in /var/cache/reflector, while my dinit service right now after i add load-options puts it in /root/.cache, put also creates an empty /.cache

[davmac314]

is there like a default daemon/service user?

That really depends on the distribution, most choose to run different services as different users (unless they need to run as root).

kmscon puts mesa cache , and reflector puts mirrorlist status.json

I don't use either of these, have you read their documentation?

on systemd, reflector puts it in /var/cache/reflector

Look at the systemd service file and see what options it uses that might be missing from the dinit service file that you're using, I guess. If you're on a distribution that supports dinit then you should be talking to them.