Re: [gentoo-dev] init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:27 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: 
> > uberpc init.d # ./test start
> >  * Starting service test
> > LANG=en_GB.utf8
> > LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8
> >     set | grep LANG
> >  * Service test started OK
> 
> Try unsetting the variable in your own shell first.
> 
> lion init.d # /etc/init.d/test restart
> LANG=en_US.utf8
>     set | grep LANG
> lion init.d # LANG=C /etc/init.d/test restart
> LANG=C
>     set | grep LANG
> lion init.d # env -u LANG /etc/init.d/test restart
>     set | grep LANG
>                 \

Um, that's kinda like behaviour by design unless anyone can tell me
otherwise.

/etc/env.d/* just set shell variables, so if you change one then you
need to

env-update
source /etc/profile
/etc/init.d/thisdaemon restart

To refresh the daemon that needs the vars

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux Developer

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