Passing environment variables from pre-start (or the shell) to exec

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:02 +0300, Alexandros Kostopoulos wrote:

> I have several issues, but I'm trying to work them out as best as  
> possible. One of these is the following: I want to be able to pass  
> environment variables from the shell (or at least from the pre-start  
> script) to the exec stanza. For example, I want to run httpd, which takes  
> several options, like -p <port>. These settings are stored in a file, e.g,  
> /etc/default/httpd. I must source this file in pre-start to get the  
> environment variables and then use exec httpd -p $PORT.
> 
Why must you source this in pre-start?  Can't you do:

  script
    . /etc/default/httpd
    exec httpd -p $PORT
  end script

Scott
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