[SOLVED] OpenRC: Passing env variables to init scripts

[amk]

Hi,

My recent emerge installed openrc and I found myself in a problem with setting up wireless network.
Basically I use environment variable to specify the SSID as there are more available around
and one of them requires parameters not supported by gnome-network-manager.

So far everything worked using simple alias:

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alias wifionh='sudo SSID=RequiredSSID /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start'

All I needed to do was to allow sudo passing the variable in /etc/sudoers:

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Defaults env_keep += "SSID"

My preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net is like this:

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        if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then
                [[ ${IN_BACKGROUND} = "true" ]] && return 0
                if [[ -z ${USER} ]] && grep -qv wifi /proc/cmdline ; then
                        ewarn "Wifi not requested in command line"
                        return 1
                fi

                WPA=/etc/wpa_supplicant
                if [[ -z ${SSID} ]]; then
                        einfo "Default - all SSIDS"
                        cat $WPA/wpa_conf.* > $WPA/wpa_supplicant.conf || return 1
                else
                        einfo "Request only $SSID"
                        cp $WPA/wpa_conf.$SSID $WPA/wpa_supplicant.conf || return 1
                fi

                einfo "Loading WiFi driver module"
                modprobe iwlagn || return 1
        fi

After upgrade to OpenRC I found that the SSID variable does not make it to the function.

Is there any rc configuration option either to make it working again, or to have the wpa_supplicant config specified using another way while invoking the init script?
I can probably fix it using a /tmp file but wondering that there might be a more elegant solution or provision I just missed checking the openRC upgrade docs.

Thanks

[mv]

There is rc_env_allow in /etc/rc.conf. However, sourcing some setup in /etc/conf.d/net.wlan0 might be more in the spirit of openrc.

[amk]

Thanks for the hint, it worked.

Not sure what you mean by /etc/conf.d/net.wlan0,
do not see any hint even in /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.2-r1/net.example

My previous HW required load/unload of kernel module from preup/postdown
and I just copied the config to new PC. If there is a better place to hook
the update of wpa_supplicant.conf, or allow user to select SSID when starting
the interface I would appreciate any pointer.

[mv]

Not sure what you mean by /etc/conf.d/net.wlan0

The name depends on the name of your /etc/init.d/... script which you use to bring up your wlan - with "oldnet" I guess that this would be /etc/init.d/net.wlan0:
The corresponding /etc/conf.d/... is usually sourced before the corresponding init.d-script is executed so that you can set variables there.

If you want to modify your configuration "automatically" you can either modify this /etc/conf.d/... file directly, or you can source from there another file which can contain such data. Something like

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if test -f /var/lib/wlan_data
then . /var/lib/wlan_data
else : set default config
...
fi