On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 04:28:48PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Jiri B <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Setting DISPLAY=:1 as setenv in /etc/login.conf
> >
> > selenium:\
> >         :setenv=DISPLAY=:1:\
> >         :tc=daemon:
> >
> > is a problem as colon is a separator and thus value is lost.
> > Escaping or quoting did not work too.
> ...
> > Any idea how to trick login.conf to pass DISPLAY value correctly?
> 
> man login.conf
> ...
> CAPABILITIES
>      Refer to getcap(3) for a description of the file layout.  All entries in
>      the login.conf file are either boolean or use a `=' to separate the
> ...
> 
> 
> man 3 getcap
> ...
>      String capability values may contain any character.  Non-printable ASCII
>      codes, new lines, and colons may be conveniently represented by the use
>      of escape sequences:
> 
>            ^X        ('X' & 037)          control-X
>            \b, \B    (ASCII 010)          backspace
>            \t, \T    (ASCII 011)          tab
>            \n, \N    (ASCII 012)          line feed (newline)
>            \f, \F    (ASCII 014)          form feed
>            \r, \R    (ASCII 015)          carriage return
>            \e, \E    (ASCII 027)          escape
>            \c, \C    (:)                  colon
> ...

Thank you! PEBKAC solved.

j.

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