From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAHmk-0008N8-8T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:53:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7V1oFUF001946; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:50:15 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7V1mZUp024306 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:48:35 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAHkU-0000Wk-LY for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:50:46 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EAHjL-0000M0-W9 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:49:36 +0200 Received: from dsl-082-082-127-049.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.127.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:49:35 +0200 Received: from skoehler by dsl-082-082-127-049.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:49:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:41:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200508251201.43416.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1125437576.13588.8.camel@uberpc.ubernet> <200508301909.51972.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE56AC231EF3FA5A57C24972B" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-082-082-127-049.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200508301909.51972.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6d4fa9c9-baa8-4e47-9512-50a6c98ee2db X-Archives-Hash: a9cf0eb24ff5f651f04b5603a610438c This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE56AC231EF3FA5A57C24972B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > init.d scripts should have a pure env given to them ... which means, they > should be run with `env -i` and have only whitelisted variables given to them > (and everything that appears in /etc/conf.d/$service /etc/conf.d/rc > and /etc/rc.conf) ... Now that may be too few variables. At least the variable LANG (or whatever the system-admin may chose to set) could be seen as a system-wide language-setting. It could be intentional, that at least some variables are available to the started server-processes. Especially a system-wide language-setting would be a good idea. After all, there's one point: The 2 possible situations (init-script started by root-shell, init-script started at by init-process) because of at least 2 reasons: - less side-effects - and of course the reason vapier mentiones: > after all, you wouldnt want something like apache having all those vars in its > env because they'd show up in php script env which means available to the > public --------------enigE56AC231EF3FA5A57C24972B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDFQrF7Ww7FjRBE4ARAgyLAJ9jcnRSwn0NMlipqyh5vg49T6bdLACgyKq2 ooJHShrkM4wzKcO1vgCEmdY= =AuEz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE56AC231EF3FA5A57C24972B-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list