Re: rc.d environment inheritance

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

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James K. Lowden wrote:
> Surely rc(8) should describe the environment it sets up for its scripts.  

Yes

> 
> That said, SOP is to use hard-coded paths in rc.d scripts.  
> 

You missed the point :)
The full path to the daemon the rc.d script called is hard coded.
However the daemon itself wants to call something in $PATH.

One might argue that the daemon in pkgsrc should be patched to use the
hardcoded path, but what if the daemon is in base and can optionally use
a pkgsrc supplied program?

Thanks

Roy
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