Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:13:53 +0600 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and environment variables Message-ID: <20101224031352.GB16472@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20101223172752.GA8539@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > The svnserve daemon is started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve. I need to > > > pass the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME=/home/svn/svn.keytab to the > > > daemon on start. How do I do that? > > > > If the user corresponding to the svnservice has a login > > shell, which would usually be the system's default > > dialog shell, the C shell, you could edit /etc/csh.cshrc > > and put > > > > setenv KRB5_KTNAME /home/svn/svn.keytab > > > > to make it a system-wide setting (or use the user's > > ~/.cshrc for a user-only setting). > > > > In case the user does NOT have a default shell, I think > > you should be able to also define a system-wide environmental > > variable by coding > > > > KRB5_KTNAME=/home/svn/svn.keytab; export KRB5_KTNAME > > > > into /etc/rc.local (which will be executed at system startup). > > See "man rc.local" for details. > > > > Put it in /etc/rc.conf and have your script read up rc.conf and > set any of the stuff in there it is interested in, such as KRB5_KINAME. What "my script" do you mean? The script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve is already installed by the port, how can I make the stock script read up KRB5_KTNAME from rc.conf? And besides, KRB5_KTNAME should be only defined for the svn user (the user svnserve runs from) and not any other user. > I think that is the officially sanctioned way of doing such things. Of course I can always write my own script or put something like su -l svn -c 'usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690 bla bla' into /etc/rc.local, but the question was about the rc.d framework. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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