There is a patch posted to this bug that grep /etc/environment looking for LANG=*, and then export just the LANG...
Em Dom, 2003-08-31 às 10:47, Petter Reinholdtsen escreveu: > [Daniel Ruoso] > > I've actually sent him an email but got no answer. I've posted in > > debian-devel few days ago and nobody complained that GDM could source > > /etc/environment in the init script. That's an one-line patch (already > > tagged as patch in bts for more than a year)... > > Remember that the file /etc/environment is not a shell script, it is a > data file for the pam_env module. The format happen to look like a > shell script, but it is not. > > See for example <URL:http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/1263> for a > description of the format. > > If you want to pass the values on to forked program, this might be > enough: > > for i in `cat /etc/environment`; do export $i; done > > It will probably not handle space in the content.
