Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:21:04 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r357566 - head Message-ID: <1c19eca5b40aa7b70b0c18b7b52b540671cc50dd.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <202002050443.0154hwPl091233@repo.freebsd.org> References: <202002050443.0154hwPl091233@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 04:43 +0000, Kyle Evans wrote: > Author: kevans > Date: Wed Feb 5 04:43:58 2020 > New Revision: 357566 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/357566 > > Log: > Add RELNOTES entry for various daemons pulling in environment variables > > Modified: > head/RELNOTES > > Modified: head/RELNOTES > ============================================================================== > --- head/RELNOTES Wed Feb 5 04:35:54 2020 (r357565) > +++ head/RELNOTES Wed Feb 5 04:43:58 2020 (r357566) > @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline. > > Changes to this file should not be MFCed. > > +r357560-r357565: > + init(8), service(8), and cron(8) will now adopt user/class environment > + variables (excluding PATH, by default, which will be overwritten) by > + default. Notably, environment variables for all cron jobs and rc > + services can now be set via login.conf(5). > + > Unfortunately, the utility of this cool series of changes is mostly destroyed by the fact that PATH is the variable that could be most usefully set in login.conf for running daemons, specifically because it is set in 3 separate places now. -- Ian
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