maillog: 24/08/2005-08:26:26(+0100): Roy Marples types
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:33 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i just wrote an init.d-script and i thought that the LANG variable was
> > inherited since it set system-wide in /etc/env.d/02locale and therefor
> > is also found in /etc/profile.env
>
> Did you env-update?
>
> >
> > Now i noticed, that LANG isn't set for the process started by my
> > init.d-script.
>
> I set LANG and a few other things in /etc/env.d/02locale
>
> Here's a quick init script called test
>
> #!/sbin/runscript
>
> start() {
> set | grep LANG
> }
>
> Now, lets see what it does
>
> uberpc init.d # ./test start
> * Starting service test
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8
> set | grep LANG
> * Service test started OK
Try unsetting the variable in your own shell first.
lion init.d # /etc/init.d/test restart
LANG=en_US.utf8
set | grep LANG
lion init.d # LANG=C /etc/init.d/test restart
LANG=C
set | grep LANG
lion init.d # env -u LANG /etc/init.d/test restart
set | grep LANG
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