Re: When gdm will use default locale setting ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:00:34PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:08:40AM -0400, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> > This problem plauged me when I was unoffically maintaining the gdm
> > package. For some reason gdm will not take the system wide locale if
> > launched from init.d. I never did solve this.
> 
> This is because init never reads /etc/environment (since it is read by
> pam_env, and init does not log on).
> 
> So I did include in my /etc/init.d/gdm:
> set -a
> . /etc/environment
> set +a

What are the set -/+ a for ? 

Also, why do you not test for the existence of the /etc/environment file
before sourcing it ?

BTW, i have filled Bug#192143 about this, maybe not with the most
explicit of wording though, but i can do a follow-up once we agree what
the best solution is.

Friendly,

Sven Luther