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Tg

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 35

What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

I'm pretty confuse here since there's roles seems to be overlap.

little off topic..  I encountered this problem when using "man"

Cannot open the message catalog "man" for locale "th_TH.utf8"
(NLSPATH="<none>")

I searched in forum and tried to add these to .bashrc

export LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8'
export LANG='en_US'

problem solved, but what does these command do ?  And Can I just use    LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8'  instead of using export ?

Last edited by Tg (2008-05-03 07:36:13)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

rc.conf - the central Arch configuration file. Settings here are applied to all users and applications.
rc.local - custom init script. Commands added here are run at boot-time, after all system initscripts.
~/.bashrc - user's bash configuration. Settings here are applied for the owner only, when he/she logs in.

Read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_locales for locale info.

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

what does the rc stand for? Runtime configuration?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

what does the rc stand for? Runtime configuration?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41857
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28025
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=13052

Tg

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Registered: 2008-04-23

Posts: 35

Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

I see.. thanks everyone.

But, there's others way to fix man page problem without changing local ?

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

what does the rc stand for? Runtime configuration?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41857
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28025
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=13052

Sounds like a "creat" thing

I'll add a link to this thread in those threads to enhance the fud around the word through recursion though

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: What's different between rc.local, rc.conf and bashrc ?

Tg.. read the wiki link, configure your locale. I assumed that's what you would do when I posted the link, but maybe I shouldn't assume these things.