On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 02:07:20 +0400 Dmitry Semyonov <[email protected]> wrote: > Another reason to set LC_ALL=C is grep slowness in UTF-8 locale. > Depending on used patterns, I saw "grep -E" to be 6 times slower > compared to C locale, and I guess this was not the worst case. The > performance problem seems to be fixed in grep-2.6.* but it is not > available in Debian yet. > > --
You can (and have always been able to) add LC_ALL=C or LANG=C or any other locale setting into logcheck.conf and it will be honoured. I dont think debian should do this by default - we should assume the locale is set up correctly - whichbit usually is So i think we can close this bug.

