Hi! On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 10:46:14 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.1 > Severity: normal > > To have a reproducible daemon, the daemons started by start-stop-daemon > should have cleaned environment, for example the language environments > LANG and LC_*. > > Not doing so ends in strange behaviour of the daemons depending which > admin with different personal language settings started it. > > Namely that is: > - LC_* > - LANG* > - *LOCALE > - evtl. LD_LIBRARY_PATH > - TZ > - ... > > Some of the environments get used by sshd from the client machine if one > logs in by ssh. > > The best would be to have a fully controlled environment for daemons. > But this would be a big step.
I see the problem and I agree that something should be done about it, but as I mentioned in [0], I don't think the right place to plug a global distribution environment policy is s-s-d, because using it is not required by the debian-policy and as such some daemons might not be using it to start. <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631081#58> Adding support for some kind of controls on the process environment to s-s-d might make sense, but not in the way you present here. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
