On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > Maybe start-stop-daemon should have an option to delete all but a
> > specified set of environment variables, maybe even enabled by
> > default.
>
> The problem is in cases where you actually want to pass environmental
> variables to the daemon from within the init script.
>
> Maybe some equivalent of
>
> unset $(export -p|awk -F= '{print $1}'|awk '{print $NF}')
>
> would work?
Just to clarify: you'd do this (or some less ugly awkish equivalent)
early on in the init script before sourcing /etc/default/foo to allow
setting up the environment there.
Don Armstrong
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