svn commit: r357566 - head

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 04:43 +0000, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Author: kevans
> Date: Wed Feb  5 04:43:58 2020
> New Revision: 357566
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/357566
> 
> Log:
>   Add RELNOTES entry for various daemons pulling in environment variables
> 
> Modified:
>   head/RELNOTES
> 
> Modified: head/RELNOTES
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/RELNOTES	Wed Feb  5 04:35:54 2020	(r357565)
> +++ head/RELNOTES	Wed Feb  5 04:43:58 2020	(r357566)
> @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
>  
>  Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
>  
> +r357560-r357565:
> +	init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment
> +	variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by
> +	default.  Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc
> +	services can now be set via login.conf(5).
> +
> 

Unfortunately, the utility of this cool series of changes is mostly
destroyed by the fact that PATH is the variable that could be most
usefully set in login.conf for running daemons, specifically because it
is set in 3 separate places now.

-- Ian