2014-10-07 19:12 GMT+02:00 Jon Stanley <jonstan...@gmail.com>: > Since EnvironmentFile in a service isn't sourced by any shell, shell > expressions in it will obviously not work the way that they did in a > SysV style script. > > Nor does it seems that the environment gets preserved between > ExecStartPre (where one could run a script that sets environment > variables to be later used in the starting of the service) and > ExecStart, so something like the following won't work:
Which is logical since no system exists to modify the environment of the parent proces. > [Service] > ExecStartPre=/something/that/sets/var > ExecStart=/some/file $var ExecStart=/bin/sh -c ". /something/that/sets/var; /some/file $var" in other words: If you want shell behaviour, use a shell. > Is there some way to get dynamically determined data into the > environment such that it can be passed to the daemon at start? Simon Peeters _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
