On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 12:43 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

Le 24/02/2018 à 10:33, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :

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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.