CentOS - Feb 2018 - Set LANG on CentOS 6 server

Hi,

I'm having a weird problem on a CentOS 6 server. I installed the machine
in french, so I have LANG=fr_FR.UTF8 defined.

I'd like to define en_US.UTF8, because some output is better readable in
english, like chkconfig --list.

I replaced fr_FR.UTF8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Unfortunately, when I reboot the system, I still get this:

# echo $LANG
fr_FR.UTF-8

Any suggestions?

Niki
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Le 24/02/2018 ? 10:33, Nicolas Kovacs a ?crit?:
> I replaced fr_FR.UTF8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /boot/grub/grub.conf.
> Unfortunately, when I reboot the system, I still get this:
> 
> # echo $LANG
> fr_FR.UTF-8
> 
> Any suggestions?
OK, so after some more googling, I found out that when I ssh into my
server, LANG gets passed on from my desktop to my server. Interesting.

So I just added the LANG definition to ~/.bashrc on the server to solve
the problem.

Cheers,

Niki

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On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 12:43 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 24/02/2018 ? 10:33, Nicolas Kovacs a ?crit :
> > I replaced fr_FR.UTF8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /boot/grub/grub.conf.
> > Unfortunately, when I reboot the system, I still get this:
> > 
> > # echo $LANG
> > fr_FR.UTF-8
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> OK, so after some more googling, I found out that when I ssh into my
> server, LANG gets passed on from my desktop to my server. Interesting.
Yes. If you look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server there should be
a list of environment variables that are accepted and in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config on the client there should be a similar list of
ones that are sent. (Actual location and name of the files depends on
your particular distros.)
> 
> So I just added the LANG definition to ~/.bashrc on the server to solve
> the problem.
> 
A more elegant (dare I say proper) way of doing it is to create a
~/.ssh/config on your client and put in it a modified 'SendEnv' for
that host (or don't have a SendEnv if you don't want any env variables
sent).

You can see what variables are being passed if you use the '-v' option
to ssh - and you can see if they are being accepted with '-vv'.

You can also, if you want, modify sshd_config on the server to not
accept the LANG and LC* variables.

P.