On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > set -a > > > . /etc/environment > > > set +a > > > > What are the set -/+ a for ? > > So that LANG is exported when gdm is executed. If not defined it is by > default not exported and thus not usable at all by gdm (the binary) (not > even seen). > > LANG=mylocale > > is the form normally obtained in /etc/environment. > > For whatever reason I used in fact set -o allexport and set +o > allexport. > > > Also, why do you not test for the existence of the /etc/environment file > > before sourcing it ? > > I should. However, default installation of Debian installs a > /etc/environment, now. But I should, really.
Could you perhaps post a patch to bug report Bug#192143 ? Friendly, Sven Luther
