SysVInit, /etc/TIMEZONE, getty_ps, telnet, and rsh

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

According to Grant Erickson:
> The problem I am having, which may be due to inappropriate hacking of
> sysvinit, is that sometimes processes of which 'init' is a parent do not
> inherit the environment variables exported:

They probably do inherit the environment, but simply reset the
environment internally ignoring whatever was set by the parent.

> Has anyone else modified sysvinit in this way? Any success? Did I miss
> something key in my patch?

I think you need t ostudy the source code of those misbehaving programs.

BTW, you could have achieved the same by using /etc/initscript. Could
be a shell script, but could be a small compiled executable too
that sets TZ.

Mike.
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