FollowUp: locale settings broken

From: Chris Denneen (sunmanagers@ghostspace.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 13:04:14 EST


If I login to console then locale reports the correct parameters.

What is the difference between logging in through console and through
SSH, except the actual dev that I am connected to console or
/dev/pts/#??

-Chris

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:00, Chris Denneen wrote:
> On my solaris 8 machine I get the following:
>
> root@shanghai:~# locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_ALL=
>
> but if I check the /etc/default/init I get this
>
> root@shanghai:~# cat /etc/default/init
> # @(#)init.dfl 1.5 99/05/26
> #
> # This file is /etc/default/init. /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this
> file.
> # This file looks like a shell script, but it is not. To maintain
> # compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell
> constructs
> # (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
> #
> # Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one
> of
> # TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.
> #
> TZ=US/Eastern
> CMASK=022
> LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
> LC_MESSAGES=C
> LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
> LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
> LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
>
> Can someone please tell me why this is changing?
> Nothing on the system has changed this (that I know of). Has anyone
> experienced this problem before?
>
> -Chris
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