Env variables (i.e. WAIT_FOR_ERLANG) do not persist during startup.

[glickbot]

Reproduce:
On Ubuntu (12.04), save 'export WAIT_FOR_ERLANG=60' in /etc/default/riak, run 'service riak start' which takes longer than 15 seconds. Notice it still only waits 15 seconds, not 60.

Variables set in /etc/default/riak don't persist if /usr/sbin/riak has to change the user riak is run as.

https://github.com/basho/node_package/blob/develop/priv/base/env.sh#L234

'su -' doesn't preserve env variables, should probably be 'su -m'.

[jaredmorrow]

This leaves us in a bit of a pickle, using 'service' strips all env, and Solaris doesn't support su -m. We might be too deep to fix this for RC. I'll try to think of the least risky fix for this, since at this point we can't just punt on Solaris.

[glickbot]

alternately /usr/sbin/riak could source /etc/default/riak. Feels like a bit of a hack though, not sure that's the behavior we want.

[jaredmorrow]

That's what I was initially thinking. We source it from the init.d script,
but clearly that is no longer effective.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jon Glick notifications@github.com wrote:

alternately /usr/sbin/riak could source /etc/default/riak. Feels like a
bit of a hack though, not sure that's the behavior we want.

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[jonmeredith]

@jaredmorrow were there any fixes outside basho/node_package#146 needed to close this?

[jaredmorrow]

Something needs to still happen, I just needed to come back to it. I'll take a look again at it tomorrow.

[glickbot]

Looks good, visual +1

[jaredmorrow]

Will close issue when it is confirmed fixed in the RC packages.