Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:31:10 +0600 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and environment variables Message-ID: <20101224033110.GC16472@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20101223205456.21ddbe27.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101223172752.GA8539@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20101223205456.21ddbe27.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: [dd] > > Anyway, if svnserve is able to be passed a command string > to, a setting like > > svnserve_flags="... -k /home/svn/svn.keytab ..." No, this is not a svnserve option, it is a setting used by libsasl2 with which svnserve is linked (or even by libkrb5.so). > > coded in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local would work, > and would also be the preferred method for such things. > In fact, I've not come across the need to have an environmental > variable to store a configuration setting for an additional > program, as such kind of variables is mainly for "low level" > system use, mostly. This need is indeed rare, but not nonexistent. In fact, if cyrus-sasl implemented the keytab: configuration option, there would be no need to set KRB5_KTNAME prior to starting svnserve. I also remember a need to pass $ORACLE_HOME to apache on start for some PHP module to work correctly. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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