On 7/24/2012 4:50 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 24/07/12 20:08, Wjhonson wrote:
On nix, when you change users, you are saying it does not set any environment
variables ?
Yes I am - by default at least.
if you do
su -
then you DO get the users environment, while we are getting a bit off
topic (which is ok by me) my main user was that calling subversion I
kept getting the same certificate error after accepting the certificate
when teh command was run from the commandline. In this case it IS a
path issue, so I tried the following:
1. in the shell script manually setting the PATH variable -- no go
2. modifying /etc/profile to add to the path (this SHOULD of worked but
did not, I may need to dig deeper into this)
I ended up specifying the config dir in the subversion command and this
worked.
If I write a service that starts off as root, then suids to something
else, it is down to MY PROGRAMMING to load that user's environment. If I
don't, it runs with the original environment.
That's why so many things written by inexperienced users and run from
cron keep breaking ...
well said or at least it helps explain why so many companies have cron
jobs that run as root (and not because its doing system stuff) but
rather because root has the right environment or permissions to do "x"
instead of taking the time to setup a user to run the cron job.
Cheers,
Wol
again thanks to everyone who chimed in!
dougc
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