On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:23 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 19:40 +0100, Shashank Sharma wrote: ... > >>My query is, how to choose language if login is set > >>for init 3. I mean, how would I choose a language for > >>my session if I don't have a graphical login screen. > > > > > > Believe the LANG environment variable will do it. See what > > "env | grep LANG" shows with the desired language environment active, > > and then "export LANG=<setting>" in runlevel 3. > > Try changing the "LANG=" setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n as that sets > the default language. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard sets the default keymap, > too. Should have mentioned those for completeness, but sounded like he just wanted to change the user environment rather than the system default. Phil
