07-02-2004
The master script exports variables. Then script it runs will see the new environment. But when the master script exits, its environment goes away. Now you're back to the original environment. A child process cannot affect the environment of its parent.
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envuidgid
envuidgid(8) System Manager's Manual envuidgid(8)
NAME
envuidgid - runs another program with environment variables indicating a specified account's uid and gid.
SYNOPSIS
envuidgid account child
DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments.
envuidgid sets $UID to account's uid and $GID to account's gid. It then runs child.
EXIT CODES
envuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it runs out of memory for environment variables, or if it cannot run
child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.
SEE ALSO
supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8), svscan(8), readproctitle(8), fghack(8), pgrphack(8), multilog(8), tai64n(8),
tai64nlocal(8), setuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8)
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
envuidgid(8)