On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:41 pm, Sven Köhler wrote: > > 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.
that is the point of the whitelist idea ... we gather a 'full env' (source /etc/profile i guess) and rip out just the whitelisted variables to pass on to init scripts -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
