Timo Weingärtner wrote: >> Maybe start-stop-daemon should have an option to delete all but a >> specified set of environment variables, maybe even enabled by default. > > service (8) does that already. Exactly, and it is supposed to be the interface used by humans to start/stop/etc services since squeeze. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net