Bug 123032

Summary:	daemon --user loose env variables
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrea Gazzaniga <andrea.gazzaniga>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Andrea Gazzaniga 2004-05-11 16:10:50 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a deamon that rely on an environment variable, and I tried
to set it in a '/etc/sysconfig/mydaemon' script, read in by my
'/etc/init.d/mydaemon'.
Using the 'daemon --user' function, I loose the environment I just
set up, bacause of the 'su -c' command used.

Do you think is possible to make daemon() to call 'su -m -c' instead?
Is there any drawback?

Thanks,
Andrea


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export SOMEVAR='foobar'
2. daemon --user=you echo $SOMEVAR

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Actual results:


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-30 20:35:18 UTC

Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

Please try to reproduce this on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4. If the
issue persists, please open a new issue. Note that this moves to a new mechanism
(runuser) to execute such commands.