topic Locale setting from inittab in Operating System - HP-UX

Locale setting from inittab

Keith Meloy_1 — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:49:35 GMT

I have a monitoring program that is launched by /etc/inittab. It works fine, but it gets the time wrong (it always reports EST whereas I am in the UK!).
I guess its something to do with there being no user environment in inittab, but cannot find how to change this.
Is it something to do with setting locale in the program itself?
Any thoughts would be approciated.

Keith

Re: Locale setting from inittab

Ravi_8 — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:59:09 GMT

Hi,
#set_parms time

set the date/time to UK (i.e europe)

Re: Locale setting from inittab

Dietmar Konermann — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:07:32 GMT

Check 11.00 patch text of PHCO_23652. You can configure a TZ default in /etc/default/tz.

Re: Locale setting from inittab

Alex Glennie — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:15:39 GMT

If no timezone variable is
set upon login, the TZ variable sets to EST by default.

you may want to try changing /etc/TIMEZONE to TZ=GMTOBST or set the TZ variable in the script that starts your application ?