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kiss-o-matic
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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: rc scripts and environment variables [SOLVED] |
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I assumed rc-scripts would read environment variables (system-wide ones defined in /etc/env.d) but indeed, they are not. Is there some fundamental thing about rc scripts I'm missing?
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:24 am Post subject: |
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The action of reading environment variables is done by 'source'. You can source any file containing environment variables.
The profile is sourced at every boot or manually by 'source /etc/profile'
FYI: | /etc/profile wrote: | for sh in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -r "$sh" ] ; then
. "$sh"
fi
done |
If you modify them you need 'env-update' first.
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kiss-o-matic
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Right, but assuming that I either reboot, or source /etc/profile, my rc script should read any system-wide environment variable, right? They are indeed not.
I looked at the ntp rc script. It has arguments stored in $NTPD_OPTS. I checked all the scripts in /etc/env.d, and none of them set this. AFAIK, they're unique to the NTPD user. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| /etc/conf.d/[rcscriptname] is where they should be set. |
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