[svlug] Give an environment to a daemon called by init

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Rick Schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0700, Akbar Ahmed wrote:
>
> > However, all calls to system() fail when I start my
> > daemon via my init script (during boot).
>
> Fail how?  (What's the error?)
>
> Could this problem be PATH-related?

I would look at both "PATH" and "SHELL".

Remember, the system() function does a fork() and an exec() of
the shell, to run the commend, and waitpid()'s for it to finish.

The other thing is to see if STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR are pointing
somewhere.  I don't know if this would effect anything here, but
I had found that glob() in perl fails if file descriptors 0,1 and
2 are closed.  I had to open /dev/null and dup()ing it after
daemonizing, to get it to work.

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