Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Matthews
No. Sudo doesn't pass envvars through to its children by default: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8633461/how-to-keep-environment-variables-when-using-sudo Read that page *and* the comments - in particular be aware that you have to request (at the CLI) that sudo preserve envvars, and you also

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread jdtommy
actually, looking at this now I realize my sudo is messing it up. I need to set the env variables for the su environment. Yeah it works now. Thanks for helping me get to that conclusion. On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 10:31 AM jdtommy wrote: > would this chain of calls not work? > >

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread jdtommy
would this chain of calls not work? ubuntu@ip-172-31-30-4:~$ export GRAPH_ADDRESS=graph.server.com ubuntu@ip-172-31-30-4:~$ export GRAPH_PORT=8182 ubuntu@ip-172-31-30-4:~$ sudo haproxy -d -V -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 3:26 AM Igor Cicimov wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 7:12 PM, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 09:12, jdtommy wrote: > >> I am setting them before I start haproxy in the terminal. I tried both >> starting it as a service and starting directly, but neither worked. It >> still would not forward it along. >>

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 09:12, jdtommy wrote: > I am setting them before I start haproxy in the terminal. I tried both > starting it as a service and starting directly, but neither worked. It > still would not forward it along. > Make sure that, as well as setting them, you're *exporting* the

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread jdtommy
I am setting them before I start haproxy in the terminal. I tried both starting it as a service and starting directly, but neither worked. It still would not forward it along. On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 2:06 AM Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 4:49 PM, jdtommy wrote: > >> here is

Re: Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 4:49 PM, jdtommy wrote: > here is my simple `listen` section of the haproxy config file: > > listen graph_front >bind *:8182 >mode tcp >server graph_server graph.server.com:8182 > > this works just fine, but I need the address and port to be a

Help with environment variables in config

2018-07-21 Thread jdtommy
here is my simple `listen` section of the haproxy config file: listen graph_front bind *:8182 mode tcp server graph_server graph.server.com:8182 this works just fine, but I need the address and port to be a environment variable. So I changed it to this: listen