rc.d and environment variables

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Fri Dec 24 09:31:56 UTC 2010


RW wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm not sure this will work. The initial question was about
> > > > how to obtain an environmental variable. If the rc.d script
> > > > of svnserve sources /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/rc.conf.local,
> > > > it is okay,
> > > 
> > > They do.  rc.d scripts all start by sucking in rc.subr, which in
> > > turn pulls in the rc.conf files.
> > 
> > So how do I make the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve script suck in
> > KRB5_KTNAME for the "svn" user from the rc.conf* files?  
> 
> Just export it from rc.conf

If exported from rc.conf, it will affect all daemons. I need to set it
only for svnserve or for the svn user (which is equivalent in my case).

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