File input (and others) shouldn't rely on $HOME

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Using the $HOME variable can cause confusion when using the file input.

If a user is testing configuration files using their own login, $HOME would could be very different from INIT.

$HOME is also not typically defined in INIT scripts causing either the need for a work around (as seen in 1.4.x), or an ugly error.

Two options:
1. Either remove $HOME and the default setting and make the path a requirement.
2. Set the default path to something not relying on $HOME. IE: LSdirectory/sincedb

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Created March 16, 2014 at 5:56 PM
Updated February 13, 2015 at 10:07 PM