Injecting an environment variable in service

[Ruben Vestergaard]

Hi list,

Is there a general way of injecting an environment variable into an rc
managed service? I need Smokeping to pick up the HTTPS_CA_FILE variable,
but there seems to be no obvious way to set it.

I guess I could modify the system scripts, but is there a cleaner,
obvious way I have missed?

Thanks!
-R

[Antoine Jacoutot]

Post by Ruben Vestergaard
Hi list,
Is there a general way of injecting an environment variable into an rc
managed service? I need Smokeping to pick up the HTTPS_CA_FILE variable, but
there seems to be no obvious way to set it.
I guess I could modify the system scripts, but is there a cleaner, obvious
way I have missed?

Sure, you can create a login class that matches the rc.d script name and add the
env var in it.

e.g. login.conf entry

smokeping:\
:setenv=HTTPS_CA_FILE=foo:\
:tc=daemon:

FYI you have an example in the smokeping package README.

[Ruben Vestergaard]

Post by Antoine Jacoutot

Post by Ruben Vestergaard
Hi list,
Is there a general way of injecting an environment variable into an rc
managed service? I need Smokeping to pick up the HTTPS_CA_FILE variable, but
there seems to be no obvious way to set it.
I guess I could modify the system scripts, but is there a cleaner, obvious
way I have missed?

Sure, you can create a login class that matches the rc.d script name and add the
env var in it.
e.g. login.conf entry
smokeping:\
:setenv=HTTPS_CA_FILE=foo:\

Brilliant, just what I was looking for! Thanks!

Post by Antoine Jacoutot
FYI you have an example in the smokeping package README.

So there is indeed. *redface.wav*

Cheers,
-R

Post by Antoine Jacoutot
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Antoine