rc.d and environment variables

[RW]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:29:01 +0600
Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> 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).

[ "$name" = "svnserve" ] && export KRB5_KTNAME="/home/svn/svn.keytab"