Bug 191869 - tmux(1) refuses to start via service(8)

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-07-14 16:43, dteske at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Hi -rc,
> 
> I'd like to get a review on a proposed patch to service(8).
> 
> I've filed BUG #191869:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191869
> 
> Proposed commit/message below:
> 
> Fix an issue with service(8) where utilities such as screen(1) and tmux(1)
> would behave differently when utilizing rc-script was invoked manually vs.
> service(8). The issue being that these utilities require the TERM environ
> variable to be set and service(8) was not passing it down.
> 
> Reported by:	Michael Dexter <editor at callfortesting.org>
> Reviewed by:	<your name here>
> MFC after:	3 days
> X-MFC-to:	stable/10, stable/9
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
> 
> M    service/service.sh
> 
> <see attached patch.txt>
> 

This fix works for me. Solves the problem with my rc script that starts
puppetdb in screen so I can reattach to the console in the future.

I don't think it should cause any problem with the regular scripts as
they startup, since TERM will be set to a reasonable default (cons25)

-- 
Allan Jude

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