Net Llama! <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
