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- From: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky)
- Subject: Re: How to change language (loginwindow)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.233829.18868@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Sender: inews@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Internet news)
- Reply-To: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE
- Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
- References: <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:38:29 GMT
- Lines: 96
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- In article <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org> b_brottier@cubx.com writes:
- > In article <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade
- Blomgren)
- > writes:
- > |
- > | A user got to one of our turbo slabs that had just been upgraded to 3.0
- > | before we did, and mischievously set the language and keyboard to
- > | French instead of the desired English, in the configuration application
- > | that comes up on the first reboot after a 3.0 install.
- > |
- > | I managed to find the right keys on the keyboard to feed in the root
- > | password and get in, and I changed the root prefs to USA keyboard and
- > | English, and now it seems if the average user logs in s/he gets an
- > | English environment, but the loginwindow is still in French. I
- > | rdist'd /.NeXT and /usr/lib/NextStep from a machine configured for
- > | English and rebooted but the login window is still in French.
- > | No other likely files presented themselves in an rdist comparison
- > | of the tow machines.
- > |
- > | Suggestions on how to force the language back to English would be
- > | most welcome.
- > |
- > | Wade Blomgren
- > | wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
- >
- > Just destroy
- > /etc/hostconfig
- > /etc/netinfo
- >
- > and put
- > /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig
- > /usr/template/client/etc//netinfo
- >
- > at the previous place
- > Then power-down.
- >
- > When power-up, you will have the NetInfo panel one more time, and check the
- > correct items.
- >
- > Hope this helps
- >
- >
- > --
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- > E-mail: b_brottier@cubx.com -- [NeXTmail]
- another way is to use th file /etc/systemTar.Z which is a .tar.Z archive of all
- files which are modified during host configuration and to restore it.
- here a listing of this archive:
- total 2
- drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 etc
- drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 private
-
- etc:
- total 8
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 857 Jul 13 1989 bootparams
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1951 Sep 10 1989 bootptab
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 236 Dec 9 1991 crontab
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 589 Aug 9 1990 hostconfig
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 828 Mar 18 1989 hosts
- drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 netinfo
- drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 sendmail
-
- etc/netinfo:
- total 1
- drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 local.nidb
-
- etc/netinfo/local.nidb:
- total 78
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78848 Aug 1 00:59 Collection
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 724 Aug 1 00:42 extension_149
-
- etc/sendmail:
- total 28
- -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9896 Jul 21 1992 sendmail.mailhost.cf
- -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8659 Jul 21 1992
- sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf
- -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8410 Jul 21 1992 sendmail.subsidiary.cf
-
- private:
- total 1
- drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 tftpboot
-
- private/tftpboot:
- total 49
- -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 49812 Jul 30 04:48 boot
-
- HTH, Christian
- --
- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz |
- Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III |
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- mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
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