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[Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 December 2005 09:37, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> How do i change root's locale?
>
> My user has:
> 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_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> And root gets the same if i use 'su'
> But if root logs in via rotshell, he gets
> LANG=POSIX
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> LC_NAME="POSIX"
> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=
>
> Why is this? And how can i change it?
>
>
> --
>          /Rikard
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I found the place myself (yast controlcenter / language)

The question is now; why does root have different settings from user to begin 
with??


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         /Rikard

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