Hello everybody.

First, I'll generalize my problem. I have a file in /etc/profile.d/ directory that exports variable DISPLAY, and a services that demands variable DISPLAY in order to get started. Though DISPLAY variable is present, service script cannot access it during execution. Why?

I'm using CentOS 6.3

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To elaborate the problem: I'm trying to run Sahi and Selenium as daemons that outputs to Xvfb, and though I exported DISPLAY during startup, both Selenium and Sahi cannot see it when starting. On the other hand ,everything works fine if I put DISPLAY variable within service(Sahi or Selenium) starting script.

Finally, code look like this:
/etc/profile.d/xvfb.sh
echo $DISPLAY returns :99

Relevant part of service starting script when service doesn't work: /etc/init.d/sahid.sh
Relevant part of service starting script when service DOES work: /etc/init.d/sahid.sh
All that means that it can't access variable DISPLAY Again - why?

Hope I didn't miss the forum for the problem I have.

Each service is started in its own subshell, with its own environment variables. They are non-interactive shells, so they do not source the system-wide profiles. You must place any variable definitions within that service's init script or configuration file.

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