Locale Setting

[TheBoyMonkey]

Hi,

I'm trying to set the locale of my Solaris environment to something other than NULL (which it is at present).

I've edited the init file in /usr/etc/default, rebooted, but still the locale remains NULL.

Any ideas?

**************************************************

#ident "@(#)init.dfl 1.6 00/05/27 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init. /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not. To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.
#
TZ=WET
CMASK=022
LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO8859-15

*******************************************

Thanks,
TBM.

 

[mrn]

You can change the default locale system-wide with the following procedure:

1. Edit the /etc/default/init file by adding or changing the line.

Substitute C, zh_TW.BIG5, zh_TW or zh_TW.UTF-8 for locale.

2. Have all users exit the Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
3. Type the following commands:

% su
# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill

4. # reboot

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[TheBoyMonkey]

Thanks. That's exactly the procedure I followed.

Any ideas as to why that might not work?

 

[KenCunningham]

Is the symlink to /etc/TIMEZONE broken in some way?

 

[TheBoyMonkey]

The contents of the TIMEZONE file reflect exactly that of the init file.

Sorry - a little new here - how can I test the symlink is in tact?

 

[mrn]

Are the locales installed?

try locale -a

Create symbolic links between the system locale directories and the product directories. For example, for Japanese:

/usr/lib/locale/jp/LC_MESSAGES/BIPv500.cat ->
/opt/mqsi/messages/Ja_JP/BIPv500.cat
/usr/lib/locale/ja_JP.PCK/LC_MESSAGES/BIPv500.cat ->
/opt/mqsi/messages/Ja_JP/BIPv500.cat

If there are no directories for your chosen language in /usr/lib/locale/, there is an operating system locale problem, and you must reinstall the locale.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[TheBoyMonkey]

The locale is installed and the directory is available in /usr/lib/locale.

It looks as though I don't have a /opt/mqsi folder though. Is this platform dependant / important / named something else?

Thanks,
TBM.

 

[mrn]

The /opt/mqsi was only an example. Give me a few minutes to check my system.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[mrn]

Can you post the output of env

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[TheBoyMonkey]

PWD=/home/weblogic/bea/user_projects/domains/<domain>
TZ=WET
HOSTNAME=parmn14
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ucblib:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib32
PS1=[weblogic@parmn14]$
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ucblib:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib32:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib
USER=weblogic
MACHTYPE=sparc-sun-solaris2.9
LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO8859-15
OLDPWD=/home/weblogic/bea/user_projects/domains
EDITOR=vi
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/j2sdk1.4.2_05
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
LOGNAME=weblogic
SHLVL=1
SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
HOSTTYPE=sparc
OSTYPE=solaris2.9
HOME=/home/weblogic
TERM=xterm
PATH=/usr/jdk/j2sdk1.4.2_05/bin:/home/weblogic/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/oracle:/usr/dt/bin:/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P15
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
_=/usr/bin/env


I can set the locale on a per-user basis by editing the .profile files and also on a shell instance basis. Both of which work fine. But I'd like the whole system-wide solution to solve my issue...

Thanks,
TBM.

 

[KenCunningham]

Can you include it /etc/profile instead of individual .profiles?

 

[mrn]

or /etc/default/global - I may be on wrong *nix version

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[KenCunningham]

Not sure (I don't have it on any of my Sun boxes). However:

http://colin.bitterfield.com/Articles/faq-environment_mgr.html

refers to it.

 

[TheBoyMonkey]

I've updated the etc/profile which updates all the users successfully. Thankyou. Though I'm not sure if it'll have the same effect as a system-wide (don't see why not mind).

My weblogic is still turning nonsense though.

Thankyou for all your help today, gents.