Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:43 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and environment variables Message-ID: <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101223172752.GA8539@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:27:52 +0600, Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote: > > Colleagues, > > > > 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. I think that is the officially sanctioned way of doing such things. ////jerry > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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