SYNOPSIS

svscanboot

DESCRIPTION

svscanboot runs the pipeline

svscan /service 2>&1 | readproctitle service errors: .....

with 400 dots. The last 400 bytes of error messages from svscan(8) will be visible to ps(1) through readproctitle(8).

svscanboot sets $PATH to

/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

(all in one line, no space)

and clears all other environment variables. Program writers are encouraged to use globally allocated names in /command.

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