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Operating Systems Solaris /etc/default/init LANG Setting Not Working Post 302960500 by kaledragule on Monday 16th of November 2015 11:23:36 AM

11-16-2015

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/etc/default/init LANG Setting Not Working

Hey guys,

I'm setting up a new server(Fujitsu M10-4 / Solaris 10 1/13) to move our app/DB and I'm having trouble figuring out why my LANG setting is not taking effect. I'm trying to set LANG=C in the /etc/default/init file which should make it the default system wide from what I gather. However it is always set to "en_US.UTF-8" when I log in. I've rebooted the server and removed/re-added the entry just to be sure, but no luck.

I can set the LANG setting to C in my shell manually, but it is not persistent when I switch over to bash or exit out. I've checked the /etc/profile, and the user profiles and I'm not finding anything that would be overriding the setting.

I suppose I can just set it in /etc/profile and the root profiles and call it a day, but I'd prefer to know exactly why the default init is not working for me. I'm hoping this is just something simple I'm missing. Anything to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

/etc/default/init contents:

Code:

#
# Copyright 1992, 1999-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
#ident  "@(#)init.dfl   1.7     02/12/03 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init.  /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not.  To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.  value may
# be enclosed in double quotes (") or single quotes (').
#
TZ=US/Eastern
CMASK=022
LANG=C

---------- Post updated at 11:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:21 AM ----------

Here are the locale settings:

Code:

# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_CA
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-15@euro
en_US.UTF-8
es
es.UTF-8
es_MX
es_MX.ISO8859-1
es_MX.UTF-8
fr
fr.UTF-8
fr_CA
fr_CA.ISO8859-1
fr_CA.UTF-8
iso_8859_1

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locale.conf

LOCALE.CONF(5)							    locale.conf 						    LOCALE.CONF(5)

NAME

       locale.conf - Configuration file for locale settings

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/locale.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/locale.conf file configures system-wide locale settings. It is read at early-boot by systemd(1).

       The basic file format of locale.conf is a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible
       to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments, no shell features are supported, allowing
       applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution engine.

       Note that the kernel command line options locale.LANG=, locale.LANGUAGE=, locale.LC_CTYPE=, locale.LC_NUMERIC=, locale.LC_TIME=,
       locale.LC_COLLATE=, locale.LC_MONETARY=, locale.LC_MESSAGES=, locale.LC_PAPER=, locale.LC_NAME=, locale.LC_ADDRESS=, locale.LC_TELEPHONE=,
       locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=, locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION= may be used to override the locale settings at boot.

       The locale settings configured in /etc/locale.conf are system-wide and are inherited by every service or user, unless overridden or unset
       by individual programs or individual users.

       Depending on the operating system, other configuration files might be checked for locale configuration as well, however only as fallback.

OPTIONS

       The following locale settings may be set using /etc/locale.conf: LANG=, LANGUAGE=, LC_CTYPE=, LC_NUMERIC=, LC_TIME=, LC_COLLATE=,
       LC_MONETARY=, LC_MESSAGES=, LC_PAPER=, LC_NAME=, LC_ADDRESS=, LC_TELEPHONE=, LC_MEASUREMENT=, LC_IDENTIFICATION=. Note that LC_ALL may not
       be configured in this file. For details about the meaning and semantics of these settings, refer to locale(7).

EXAMPLE

       Example 1. German locale with English messages

       /etc/locale.conf:

	   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
	   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), locale(7), systemd-localed.service(8)

systemd 208															    LOCALE.CONF(5)