Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:51:06 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) Message-ID: <20010604135106.A8896@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <200106032352.f53Nqvn47341@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org>; from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:52:57AM %2B0100 References: <200106032352.f53Nqvn47341@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org>
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:52:57AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > I'd leave the "bug" alone, pending real enlightenment... Me too. I've never met a command name with an "=" in it. > By the way, who uses env(1) anyway? In the past twenty years, I've only > ever used it as shorthand for printenv(1). What's this csh(1) thing? :-) How else do you throw away your environment, to make sure that daemons that you start with sudo don't do anything silly? I'm pretty sure that I copied this /etc/start_if.ed0 from somewhere, rather than making it up: env - PATH=$PATH dhclient ed0 It's also quite commonly used in /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts, including qmail and courier-imap. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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