Re: /etc/init.d scripts

[Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org>]

On 17 Apr 1999, Jean Charles Delepine wrote:

> > Assume I'm running as root and have made the changes to let it happen w/o
> > a password. I'm going to get an error here that it can't find
> > "start-stop-daemon". Alternatively, if I change the "daemon" script to
> > point to /sbin/start-stop-daemon then it works fine. I tried this with
> > /etc/init.d/bind
> 
> So you should use ssh capablity :
> 
> man ssh :
>        Additionally,     ssh     reads    /etc/environment    and
>        $HOME/.ssh/environment, and adds lines of the format  VAR­
>        NAME=value  to  the  environment.   Some  systems may have
> 
> So, puting your wanting PATH in /root/.ssh/environement should do the
> job.


Thanks, I already had a solution to my particular problem, and this was
it. As in, I already did this -- but I wasn't asking for help in my
particular problem, and this doesn't work for rsh.

I still think the policy, modified a bit to make the PATH statement
appending rather than overriding is a good thing to have.

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