CentOS - Dec 2014 - Changing LANG from de_DE to en_US in CentOS 6

Hello,

on a Macbook with OSX Yosemite (which prints de_DE.UTF-8 as value of
$LANG in Terminal) and VmWare Fusion 7 I have installed CentOS 6.6
minimal.

When I ssh to my new VM as root, the $LANG is de_DE.UTF-8 too.

I would like it to be en_US.UTF-8 instead.

I have grepped /etc and /root for "de_DE", but nothing is found there.

Grepping for LANG in /etc gives many results, esp. /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains:

   LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
   SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

So where does the change to de_DE happen and what is the best spot in
CentOS 6 to set that to en_US.UTF-8

(I understand that I could set LANG in /root/.bash_profile but am
looking for a better place to do that).

Thank you
Alex

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Alexander Farber
wrote:
> on a Macbook with OSX Yosemite (which prints de_DE.UTF-8 as value of
> $LANG in Terminal) and VmWare Fusion 7 I have installed CentOS 6.6
> minimal.
> 
> When I ssh to my new VM as root, the $LANG is de_DE.UTF-8 too.
> 
> So where does the change to de_DE happen and what is the best spot in
ssh is setting it, based on your terminal settings.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config you'll see a lines starting with
"AcceptEnv" - one of the settings
will be LANG.  This tells the ssh daemon to accept the LANG value sent by the
client.
A standard ssh client (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) has "SendEnv" settings,
and LANG is one of those...

So you can do various things:
1) Stop sshd from accepting LANG (edit sshd_config, restart)
2) Stop ssh client from sending LANG
3) Modify .profile

-- 

rgds
Stephen