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Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian



On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 08:09:19PM +0300, Brock Rozen wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Well...ideally every script SHOULD set its path to include 
> > everything it uses (it shouldn't make assumptions of "this is on
> > my path") I dunno if this is currently policy but I think it is 
> > goo dpractice...
> 
> Yes, it would be a good policy, if not currently one.
> 
> > anyway...why is this  aproblem? why do you want to change it?
> > isn't that EXACTLY what you want? (ie it has the path so you
> > don't need to change it)
> 
> What I meant to say is that most scripts (or so I'm told) have that line
> -- but the /etc/init.d scripts do *not* have them. The  change I'm
> requesting is to have such a line added.

bash-2.02$ grep PATH *
apache:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
atd:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
atd.dpkg-old:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
dhcpc-orig:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
halt:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
modutils:PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
grep: nohup.out: Permission denied
rcS:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
rcS:export PATH runlevel prevlevel
reboot:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
well ok
bash-2.02$ grep PATH *
apache:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
atd:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
atd.dpkg-old:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
dhcpc-orig:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
halt:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
modutils:PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
grep: nohup.out: Permission denied
rcS:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
rcS:export PATH runlevel prevlevel
reboot:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
samba:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
sendsigs:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
single:PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
skeleton:PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
squid:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
umountfs:PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
xdm:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
xfs:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
xfstt:PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

I count 16 unique scripts that have it. I also count about 45 scripts 
in my init.d directory. Sound slike your right.

So make a script lik eI posted...use that untill all of the
init.d scripts are fixed.  

-Steve

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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary 
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