On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:57:45AM +0100, Ruben Vestergaard wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Is there a general way of injecting an environment variable into an rc
> managed service? I need Smokeping to pick up the HTTPS_CA_FILE variable, but
> there seems to be no obvious way to set it.
>
> I guess I could modify the system scripts, but is there a cleaner, obvious
> way I have missed?
Sure, you can create a login class that matches the rc.d script name and add the
env var in it.
e.g. login.conf entry
smokeping:\
:setenv=HTTPS_CA_FILE=foo:\
:tc=daemon:
FYI you have an example in the smokeping package README.
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Antoine
