On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:52 -0700, gerrynix wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > > > I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in > > > > the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does > not > > > > get set for normal users, but does get set for root. > > > > > > Did you reboot? > > > > > Yup. > > OK, just checking. > > The action appears to be in the file /etc/profile.d/lang.sh, where there > is a check for $HOME/.i18n. If this exists it's sourced, except that > $LANG is preserved. Then there's a bunch of other special cases which > you would need to pore over. Of course if the user doesn't have a > $HOME/.i18n file it just sets some standard defaults. > > I don't know if any of this explains what you're seeing. > > poc > > Not sure if this will fill your needs, but you will have no further > probs... Place the assignments in the /etc/profile. Of course, they > are then set into the environment on a per login basis. If you have > *csh users, also place the assignments in the /etc/csh.login. > Okay, thanks for the replies. I'm still a bit confused though. On my F9 system I have an /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, but no '$HOME/.i18n'. So according to the /etc/profile.d/i18n file, it should execute: for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n $HOME/.i18n ; do [ -f $langfile ] && . $langfile && sourced=1 done Then a bit further on we have: [ -n "$LC_COLLATE" ] && export LC_COLLATE || unset LC_COLLATE Since I have set LC_COLLATE="C" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, then LC_COLLATE should be exported. Perhaps I need to test a little bit more. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list