inetd environment

[Domenico Viggiani]

I'd like to pass a few of specific environment variables to servers started by inetd.
What is the best way to do it?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can try modifying the /sbin/init.d/inetd script and put your export statements before then inetd invocation in the start) section. I'm don't know if inetd does a subsequent putenv() that would wipe out any unexpected env variables.

[Dani Seely]

Hey Domenico,
You should edit /etc/inetd.conf and add the env variables you want the services to run with ... this will allow the daemon to run with the specific parameter from within inetd.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You could edit the inetd file in /sbin/init.d but this file may be replaced at any time in the future by a patch. Configurations for startup scripts (like inetd) are handled in the /etc/rc.config.d directory. There is no specific inetd file in that directory so you can add the new env values in /etc/rc.config to a new file called /etc/rc.config.d/inetd. whatever is in that script will be added to the startup environment.