Locale problems on Solaris

[Scot Elliott]

Actually from a quick truss of a telnetd process, it seems it calls
setlocale().  I'd suggest that's the way to go rather than reading in
/etc/default/init.


Scot


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

>
>
> In --current one should just be able to put in do_setup_env() a:
>
> 	read_environment_file(&env, &envsize, "/etc/default/init");
>
> for 3.0.2 it would be do_child()
>
> - Ben
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Daniel Bergman wrote:
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> >
> > I've also experienced this which I solved by setting the locale variables
> > in /etc/profile but I rather would like SSH to set the right locale for me.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> >
> > > Hi there.
> > >
> > > With OpenSSH 3.0.2p1 on Solaris, the locale does not appear to get set
> > > correctly at login, as it does with, say telnet:
> > >
> > > /etc/default/init:
> > >  TZ=GB
> > >  CMASK=022
> > >  LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_MESSAGES=C
> > >  LC_MONETARY=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >
> > > When logging in via SSH:
> > >  scot /home/scot > locale
> > >  LANG=
> > >  LC_CTYPE="C"
> > >  LC_NUMERIC="C"
> > >  LC_TIME="C"
> > >  LC_COLLATE="C"
> > >  LC_MONETARY="C"
> > >  LC_MESSAGES="C"
> > >  LC_ALL=
> > >
> > > When logging in via telnet:
> > >  scot /home/scot > locale
> > >  LANG=
> > >  LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_MONETARY=en_GB.ISO8859-1
> > >  LC_MESSAGES=C
> > >  LC_ALL=
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd expect the default locale to have been set I think.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Scot
> > >
> > >
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