From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 19:18:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D136106564A for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C758FC0A for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id oBNJEhMk024670; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id oBNJEh2c024669; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:14:43 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20101223191443.GA24653@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20101223172752.GA8539@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101223201249.ea7648aa.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and environment variables X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:18:10 -0000 On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:27:52 +0600, Victor Sudakov 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"