Re: Package updates

[Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk>]

Santiago Otero <santiago@atlas.uvigo.es> writes:

> El mar, 28-01-2003 a las 21:45, Ole Laursen escribió:

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> > I thought so too. But I was fooled by the fact that the environment is
> > loaded when you restart GDM as root. Reboot, then English again.
> 
> gdm doesn't read /etc/environment. It reads /etc/profile. You've got to
> set LANG there. "/usr/bin/gdm" is only a script:

Ah, but shouldn't it read /etc/environment?

/etc/profile says:

  # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
  # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

And then it goes on defining how the prompt should look like.

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Ole Laursen
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