Sandy Drobic wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > >> Two days ago, I happened to spot that root on that machine has >> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 >> I wondered if that might have anything to do with my problem, and I >> added explicit LC_CTYPE=C statements in the cron/backup scripts. The >> next backup run produced plain text, so I thought I'd solved it. So I >> took my LC_CTYPE=C statements out again in order to prove that was the >> factor. But this morning the log is still plain text! So I'm still confused. >> > > Grin! Keep up the digging. Hopefully you will unearth some more settings > to make programs behave and send in plain text. (^-^) > > Since I have had the same problem with the output of logdigest (getting sent as an attachment) on my 10.2, I decided to check root's LANG environment. It was set to POSIX, while my user is set to en_US.UTF-8. I found this info on POSIX from Google ( http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC34244 ) that says POSIX cannot handle characters > 127 ascii. I had never even thought of roots LANG setting, and I cannot now say I understand what it means. What should it be? Would this cause mailx to decide it is not plain text? I did change /etc/sysconfig/language ROOT_USES_LANG to yes from ctype, and now root also has en_US.UTF-8, so I will see if it does anything tomorrow I guess. I just checked my 9.3 server where logdigest works, and env | grep LANG returns nothing for root. so maybe?
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