From 1d317bbf0530462f7963d100291de7c2775c9c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manuel Canales Esparcia Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:09:48 +0000 Subject: Removed text in chapter 07. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4440 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter07/profile.xml | 80 +-------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 79 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter07/profile.xml') diff --git a/chapter07/profile.xml b/chapter07/profile.xml index 35bb9e70c..5bf3c281c 100644 --- a/chapter07/profile.xml +++ b/chapter07/profile.xml @@ -9,71 +9,7 @@ /etc/profile -The shell program /bin/bash (hereafter -referred to as just the shell) uses a collection of startup files to -help create an environment to run in. Each file has a specific use and -may affect login and interactive environments differently. The files in -the /etc directory generally provide global -settings. If an equivalent file exists in your home directory it may -override the global settings. - - -An interactive login shell is started after a successful login, using -/bin/login, by reading the -/etc/passwd file. An -interactive non-login shell is started at the command-line (e.g., -[prompt]$/bin/bash). A non-interactive -shell is usually present when a shell script is running. It is non-interactive -because it is processing a script and not waiting for user input between -commands. - -For more information see info bash -- -Nodes: Bash Startup Files and Interactive -Shells. - -The files /etc/profile and -~/.bash_profile are read when the shell is invoked -as an interactive login shell. - -A base /etc/profile created below sets some -environment variables necessary for native language support. By setting them -properly, you get: - - -the output of programs translated into your native -language; -correct classification of characters into letters, digits and -other classes - this is necessary for Bash to accept non-ASCII characters -in command lines properly in non-English locales; -the alphabetical sorting order correct for your -country; -good default paper size; -correct formatting of monetary, time and date -values. - - -This script also sets the INPUTRC environment variable that makes -Bash and Readline use -the /etc/inputrc file we created earlier. - -Replace [ll] below with the -two-letter code for your language (e.g., en) and -[CC] with the two-letter code for your country -(e.g., GB). Also you may need to specify -(and this is actually the preferred form) your -character encoding (e.g. iso8859-1) after a dot -(so that the result is en_GB.iso8859-1). -Issue the following command for more information: - -man 3 setlocale - -The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running -the following command: - -locale -a - -Now, when you are sure about your locale settings, create the -/etc/profile file: +Create the /etc/profile file: cat > /etc/profile << "EOF" # Begin /etc/profile @@ -85,18 +21,4 @@ export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc # End /etc/profile EOF -The C (default) and en_US -(the recommended one for US English users) locales are -different. - -Setting the keyboard layout, -the screen font and the locale-related environment variables -are the only internationalization steps needed to support -locales that use ordinary single-byte encodings and left-to-right -writing direction. More complex cases (including UTF-8 based locales) -require additional steps and additional patches because many applications -tend to break in such conditions. Because of too little educational -value for a typical reader, these steps and patches are not included -in the LFS book and such locales are not supported by LFS in any way. - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf