On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:19:13AM +1100, Christopher Vance wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:01:27PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote:
> >In /etc/profile  I have this set
> >
> >TZ='Australia/Sydney'
> >LANG='C'
> >LC_ALL='C'
> >export TZ
> >export LANG
> >export LC_ALL
> 
> /etc/profile is only read by login shells of the Bourne tradition.

Yeap understand, I beleive bash falls into that catogory

> 
> >when I log in via a console I get all 3 set like that
> >
> >When I log in via xdm and start a rxvt window with bash
> >
> >It is missing LC_ALL.
> >
> >Not sure where it is being lost ?
> 
> xdm is not a login shell - did you tell rxvt it was a login shell?

Okay, I used xdm to login, I then start a rxvt session I believe it
uses what ever is defined in /etc/passwd as my shell program, again
bash.

A

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