Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote:
John,
how would I set an ENV variable via the kernel? If I can do
that, it might just solve my problem(s).
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL ro root=LABEL=/ vga=794 ENV=VAL
No promies, it's available to the boot script but something later might
sanitize things.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] how to handle "echo" ?
Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote:
Tom,
this works great for "login" sessions, but it doesn't work for
crond and rshd so I still have the problem!
Actually, I found /etc/security/pam_env.conf which should work for all
pam-enabled services, but it doesn't seem to work for either crond or
rshd.
I tried re-building the RPM from SRPM and defining _UNIV_DEFAULT=att
in
the CCFLAGS, but it still defaults to ucb.
*Sigh* - I really just want a solution that works...
Kevin
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:59 PM
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Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] how to handle "echo" ?
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:13 -0400, Tom Sightler wrote:
The echo builtin has different behavior based on setting UNIVERSE to
ucb
or att. That's why I posted it as a possible workaround before, if
you
can figure out a way to set it globally, which I couldn't. As it
turns
out, placing echo in /usr/local/bin is simply hinting the system to
default to a different UNIVERSE setting.
Well, I just found another workaround that will probably be even
better
for us. Simple setting the envrionment variable _AST_FEATURES to
'UNIVERSE - att' causes echo to revert to the behavior we want (I this
worked by calling getconf in a ksh environment but didn't know how to
set it via an environment variable). I've added it to our
/etc/profile
on our test system and this appears catch all of our cases.
Setting it on the kernel commandline may work; I don't know whether
something clears the environment.
Setting it in the environment for crond, atd etc may work too, but watch
for reversions when the packages are updated.
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Cheers
John
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