On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:46:17PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400): > > >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? > > Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost! > > check /etc/environment > > cool. i didn't know this file existed. how does it tie in? when is it > sourced?
<guess>seems like it's done in a PAM plugin somewhere, as i often get log message about May 30 22:29:59 server sshd[6038]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; MAIL so i get the impression pam is looking at environment stuff. i could be wrong. </guess> i coulda swore are also references to it in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.login or /etc/*rc login scripts -- but now i can't find any such references, so i'll just go sit in the corner and whimper. (!) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #12 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Where is the DOCUMENTATION? It's all over the place... and there's lots of it. Much was written for non-debian distributions, and much was written long, long ago. But try these anyhow: on your own system, try "man" and "info" and "apropos", and also look under /usr/share/doc/<package>* ... Online, there's linuxdoc.org, debianhelp.org, and debian.org/doc/ of course. Also try http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/general/index-deb-help-sys.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...