[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d-scripts don't see stuff from /etc/profile.env

[Sven Köhler]

>>>init.d scripts should have a pure env given to them ... which means, they
>>>should be run with `env -i` and have only whitelisted variables given to
>>>them (and everything that appears in /etc/conf.d/$service /etc/conf.d/rc
>>>and /etc/rc.conf) ...
>>
>>Now that may be too few variables. At least the variable LANG (or
>>whatever the system-admin may chose to set) could be seen as a
>>system-wide language-setting. It could be intentional, that at least
>>some variables are available to the started server-processes. Especially
>>a system-wide language-setting would be a good idea.
>
> that is the point of the whitelist idea ... we gather a 'full
> env' (source /etc/profile i guess) and rip out just the whitelisted variables
> to pass on to init scripts

OK, you just didn't list /etc/profile in your first reply. The
whitelist-thing is a good idea and makes it very flexible.