From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 14:36:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD0616A404 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ersaloz@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D8113C46C for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ersaloz@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so1262322ugh for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:36:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:importance:in-reply-to:x-mimeole; b=bwdY2Pf1q1GjBYAhAtODk2SoZB349hqxiRmMpykJTM62GPm5/fVhTR8ul1qNNkPgiZxoDvXMVTJ7bAeuFsuPP4LoESz1vqzjG5n93i9Zm+2PAZPyTdcDlbIZQS3zsFjoqSS0yOChXsvS6ASyvXoMDaR0X3iz6xmzIlMmZkOEh94= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:importance:in-reply-to:x-mimeole; b=sE9xR6eojzqdHGlLesw0gFv/ONJ6SdUSUK3/czjp7//cAZix9epKXQnQbzUfR+Pas3MAvLX9QG6LDPzr2IDRbxKlpFEwYLjhclIO0UCvYjTLU7HAfZ0LjK1pcTFmKvSblRzfiIMwwW2xNYHSs/T7G1h161DS9Zez8aXaIAGoOdk= Received: by 10.67.50.7 with SMTP id c7mr5995575ugk.1179239812683; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asinusaureus ( [83.50.2.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 59sm16186482ugf.2007.05.15.07.36.49; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ernest Sales" To: Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:36:46 +0200 Message-ID: <000301c796fe$78b69640$2101a8c0@asinusaureus> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20070515111734.GB10568@Klabautermann.ks.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: 'Christopher Illies' Subject: RE: .login_conf ignored X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:58 -0000 On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:18 PM, Christopher Illies wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:27:10PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote: > > > > > The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored: > > > > > > ; cat .login_conf > > > # $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3 > 2001/06/10 17:08:53 > > > # ache Exp $ > > > # > > > # see login.conf(5) > > > # > > > me:\ > > > :charset=UTF-8:\ > > > :lang=en_US.UTF-8: > > > > > > ; env | egrep -i 'lang|charset' > > > LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 > > > MM_CHARSET=iso-8859-1 > > > ; ls -l .login_conf > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 146 May 15 08:26 .login_conf > > > ; uname -r > > > 6.2-STABLE > > > > > > My .login_conf file is not a symlink or world writable > etc. Also, an > > > identical .login_conf for another user is applied without > problems. > > > What am I missing? > > > > > > Christopher > > > > > > Did you run cap_mkdb? > > > > >From login.conf manpage: > > > > The default /etc/login.conf shipped with FreeBSD is an > out of the box > > configuration. Whenever changes to this, or the > user's ~/.login_conf, > > file are made, the modifications will not be picked up until > > cap_mkdb(1) > > is used to compile the file into a database. This > database file will > > have a .db extension and is accessed through cgetent(3). > > > > Never had to deal with ~/.login_conf files, but what > cap_mkdb manpage seems > > to say > > is that you have to concatenate all sources in one run, i.e. > > > > cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf /home/user1/.login.conf > /home/user2/.login.conf ... > > > > HTH > > > > Ernest > > Thanks, unfortunately no success. > > When I concatenate all ~/login_conf files with /etc/login.conf I get > the following warning message: > cap_mkdb: ignored duplicate: me So I was mistaken. Try compiling just your ~/login_conf, make sure a ~/login_conf.db file appears. Ernest > It did not help with my locale setting, though. Strangely, another > user account on the same computer works correctly in that respect. > Also, running cap_mkdb after changing the ~/login_conf of that user is > not neccessary for the changes to take effect. > > This makes me think that there is something wrong with my > user account. But what? > > Christopher