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To: Elan Marikit <emarikit@infoweapons.com>
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Subject: Re: set env in chroot script
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Elan Marikit <emarikit@infoweapons.com> writes:

> I am a newbie of FreeBSD and I want to know how to set environment
> inside chroot in a shell script.
>
> My script looks like this:
> chroot $NEWROOT /bin/sh -c "<command>"
>
> And I want to set an environment, before the <command>.
>
> Is it possible that it will inherit my parent environment? like the
> environment set in my script?

According to the chroot(8) manual, only the SHELL value will
be inherited.

Try making a wrapper script to set the values you want, and
call the command from inside that script.