initscripts global change

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:36:36 Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 14:15:57 +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > what you think of this change?
>
> I can't see any point.
next sentence explained that.

> > it will make global $PROG (varname could be debated),
> > which means always same service name regardless of invocation:
>
> Who cares?
looks like i, if i decided to write a email?

> > (which is preffered as it cleans up $ENV for invoked daemons)
>
> I'm not sure that unconditional environment tampering is good thing.

it is (proven so by the fact you didn't even know ;) )

why yould you like a started daemon depend on enviroment from where it was 
started? it's usually worse than good (do you want your $LDAP_PASSWORD being 
visible for all persons who use phpinfo() ;) 

if you want env for daemon, /etc/sysconfig/SERVICE or /etc/rc.d/init.d/SERVICE 
is place to set these.

-- 
glen