setting env vars

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Net Llama! <mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org> typed thusly on Monday, February
> 10, 2003 12:40 PM:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> >> Remember all those daemons running on your system?  Some
> >> of them need the information provided by these files and
> >> these daemons have no "environment".  So where will they
> >> get the right info from?
> >>
> >> Since the info doesn't change, I suggest you get the
> >> address and name during bootup and put the correct info
> >> in the file.
> >
> > Unfortunately, its not quite that simple.
>
> Couldn't you set up the environmental variable in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> file (or whatever file is executed first by init reading /etc/inittab) and
> export it.  It would then be available to *all* of the daemons that init
> kicked off, as well as later applications.  It would also be modifiable,
> too, wouldn't it?

According to Dave Bandel, that wouldn't work.

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