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Old 03-25-2008
environment history/audit
hi there,

im going down a few rabbit holes with this one and hoped somebody could point me straight... im not sure if im looking for a log, cmd, or script but i want to know when and where the current environment got set.

eg, if i type env or set i get some entries like:
HOSTNAME=myhost.meh
...
FTP_PROXY=myproxy.meh
...
ftp_proxy=myproxy.meh
...

now we dont use a proxy and i want to prevent those vars from being set.

does a mechanism exist to track what process/file exported those variables? im thinking something like a log level or trigger or anything besides grep -R varstring / since this seems like itd be a fairly common admin task, not to mention greping wont give load order or precedence.

thanks for the help! r, /matt
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Old 04-06-2008
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Originally Posted by mjz
does a mechanism exist to track what process/file exported those variables? im thinking something like a log level or trigger or anything besides grep -R varstring / since this seems like itd be a fairly common admin task, not to mention greping wont give load order or precedence.
Depending on your OS there are multiple choices; if you have DTrace at your disposal, you can create a script which prints out all getenv() and setenv().
 
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