<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thank you very much for the quick answers, this is why I checked here before opening a bug report. Being an old IRIX guy I have always called the init.d scripts directly, I guess I will have to change my ways. On 15/10/2012 21:28, Jonathan Billings wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20121016012833.GJ22584@negate.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 08:59:35PM -0400, Cale Fairchild wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Today I discovered a peculiar issue with the vsftpd init scripts. My vsftpd daemon stopped authenticating properly because when I restarted the service as root the vsftpd daemon inherited the current root environment which included redirected TMP variable set to /root/tmp. Of course when it was set that way the selinux context was incorrect and the permissions on the directory itself was very restrictive. I worked around the problem by resetting my TMP and TMPDIR variables to /tmp and restarting the service again but I am wondering if this should be filed as a bug? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is one of the reasons you should always use '/sbin/service' instead of running the /etc/rc.d/init.d/<scriptname> directly. The 'service' script scrubs your environment and sets the CWD to / before executing the init script. The only environment variables from your root shell that are preserved are $TERM and $LANG. -- Jonathan Billings <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jsbillin@umich.edu"><jsbillin@umich.edu></a> _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com">rhelv6-list@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>