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 > > -- > Christopher Vance > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
