Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:33:51 +0100 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATH variable in lpd's process Message-ID: <20151223213351.GA1304@becker.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <20151221164338.GB33124@becker.bs.l> References: <20151221164338.GB33124@becker.bs.l>
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Hi, On Monday, 21. Dec 2015, 17:43:38 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > in my "/etc/printcap", the "if" field points to an input > filter I wrote in Ruby. There, the first line is a shebang > saying > > #!/usr/bin/env ruby > > Further there is > > # procstat -e `pgrep lpd` > PID COMM ENVIRONMENT > 940 lpd PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin PWD=/ HOME=/ RC_PID=20 > > As you can easily see, I will receive a mail saying the > print job failed because of > > env: ruby: No such file or directory > > When I restart "lpd" from the command line, the new process > receives the environment variables from the shell process > and everything ist fine. > > [...] > > "/etc/crontab" allows to reset the PATH variable but I do > not see a way to do the same in "/etc/printcap". I decided unhesitatingly to extend the lpd printcap mechanism and I added a filter-path variable that will be put into the filter processes before calling exec there. I think this should be part of the official FreeBSD release. Where is the right place to propose it? Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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