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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:18:23 Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:07:05PM +0100, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > Since the change of provider for su, I have noticed that one of my init
> > scripts fails.
> >
> > The script does
> >  FB=/usr/firebird/bin/fbmgr.bin
> > RUND=/var/run/firebird
> > PID=$RUND/`basename $0`.pid
> >
> >                 echo "Starting Firebird Super Server"
> >                 mkdir -p $RUND
> >                 chown firebird:firebird $RUND
> >                 su -l "firebird" -s /bin/sh -m \
> >                        -c "$FB -start -forever -pidfile $PID"
> >                 evaluate_retval
> >
> >  The relevant entry in /etc/passwd is
> >  firebird:x:84:84::/var/run/firebird:/bin/false
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > It worked previously.
>
> Treeve, have you been able to resolve this issue? I've noticed that the
> shadow provided su resets the PATH environment variable to those
> specified as ENV_SUPATH (for superuser) and ENV_PATH (for others) in
> /etc/login.defs if those are not defined (which is the default case)
> PATH is reset to /bin:/usr/bin. If $FB is a shell script that doesn't
> set PATH or use absolute paths for binaries this might well be the
> problem.
>

I found a fix for this.

The problem seems to be the -l parameter.  I made it the the last one and the 
problem disappeared.  I updated the init scripts for firebird and postgresql 
to 
take account of this and both work for me now.

commits 2cbd610d87e8ef839a6b3c418a04f18934f246f8
and e7da4702a0a1ec4c5a546260b8b7eb6dd55973c5
on March 9th




> Regards,
>
> Remko van der Vossen


-- 
Regards, Treeve