On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:57:47PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > The real point is that there are two conflicting desires: > > 1. That the sysadmin be able to make stupid changes to the environment, > and that everything still work. > > 2. That the sysadmin be able to make clever changes to the environment, > and have it affect everything in the desired way.
Consider bugs #10813 and #32579 [0].
The problem isn't that making stupid changes makes everything break, the
problem is that even `clever' changes make everything break. Subtly even.
I'm of course happy to leave everything exactly as it is for the moment
-- I'm not that averse to the ``It hurts if I do this'' ``Then don't
do that.'' philosophy -- but I think that just declaring that changing
root's PATH, TZ, LOGNAME, etc are `stupid' isn't necessarily the best
solution to this.
But working out exactly what should be reset how isn't a trivial thing
to do [1], and at least the current behaviour is -reasonably- obvious.
Cheers,
aj
[0] For those people who, like me, have really cool mail readers that
let you just click on URL and load up Netscape...
http://bugs.debian.org/10813
http://bugs.debian.org/32579
[1] Well, if it is, please feel free to outline it. Ideally provide
patches for /etc/init.d/* that fixes all these complaints and
introduces no new ones. Ideally.
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