[Lcdproc] Lcdexec: SHELL environment variable not set

Peter Marschall peter@adpm.de
Thu Feb 8 18:45:02 2007


Hi,

On Tuesday, 6. February 2007 17:15, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I'm starting to answer my own question here....but I see that the "service"
> script in FC6 launches another script as follows:
>
> env -i LANG="$LANG" PATH="$PATH" TERM="$TERM" "${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}"
> start
>
> The "-i" forces an empty environment.  That's why it's failing.  This means
> that lcdexec can never be started as a service.  That seems like a bad
> design....
>
> Peter - any changes planned for lcdexec that might affect this?  Seems like
> a simple fix...
Is it ?
Patches welcome.

It's already in the CVS since 22nd of October 2006
(not the 0.5.x stable but MAIN)

Browse through lcdexec.conf and look for Shell.

Peter

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