Slackware scripts started at boot time need env vars from /etc/profile.d/* to be set

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Published on 2010-06-13T16:35:36Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 17:53 UTC
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Hey, I have this problem, that scripts started at boot time from rc.local don't have environment variables (defined at /etc/profile.d/*) set at the time of their startup. What should I do ?

"su - lisak -c /opt/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.1-standalone/bin/startup.sh"

"su - lisak -c /opt/aaa2/at-22/bin/startup.sh"

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