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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:59:45 -0400
From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting a locale globally
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On 6/14/2013 at 3:46 PM staticsafe wrote:

|On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0400, Mike. wrote:
|> 
|> 
|> I would like to set the locale of my 9.1 server to
|> 
|>    LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1"
|> 
|> 
|> globally, i.e., put the locale entry in one file, and then have the
|> locale propagate as I go into other shells and run various scripts.
|> 
|> 
|> I have spent some quality time with google, and the best I have been
|> about to ascertain is that I need to sprinkle the LANG setting
|> throughout the various ENV variables and .profile, .cshrc, .bashrc,
and
|> whatever files spread across my directory tree.
|> 
|> 
|> That really seems counter-intuitive to me.
|> 
|> 
|> Is it at all possible for me to specify in once place *somewhere"
that
|> the entire server is to use the locale setting
LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" ?
|> 
|> I need a clue...
|> 
|> 
|> thanks.
|> 
|> 
|24.3.3.1.1. Login Classes Method
|"This method allows environment variables needed for locale name and
|MIME character sets to be assigned once for every possible shell
instead
|of adding specific shell assignments to each shell's startup file.
User
|Level Setup can be performed by each user while Administrator Level
|Setup requires superuser privileges."
|
|Source:
|http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/using-localization.html#lo
gin-class
|-- 
=============

Thank-you!  That does what I need.

I added the lang keyword to the default and root sections of
/etc/login.conf, then ran 

	cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

as mentioned in the handbook.


Thanks again for the assist.