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[–] ohshit604 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

Would’ve used that debug log to scold the end-user. “If you’ve actually read the first 3 lines of the documentation you wouldn’t be seeing this.”