.login_conf ignored [solved]

[Christopher Illies]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:36:46PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:18 PM, Christopher Illies wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:27:10PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote:
> > >
> > > > The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored:
> > > >
> > > > ; cat .login_conf
> > > > # $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3
> > 2001/06/10 17:08:53
> > > > # ache Exp $
> > > > #
> > > > # see login.conf(5)
> > > > #
> > > > me:\
> > > >         :charset=UTF-8:\
> > > >         :lang=en_US.UTF-8:
> > > >
> > > > ; env | egrep -i 'lang|charset'
> > > > LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
> > > > MM_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
> > > > ; ls -l .login_conf
> > > > -rw-r--r--  1 chris  chris  146 May 15 08:26 .login_conf
> > > > ; uname -r
> > > > 6.2-STABLE
[...]
> > > Never had to deal with ~/.login_conf files, but what
> > cap_mkdb manpage seems
> > > to say
> > > is that you have to concatenate all sources in one run, i.e.
> > >
> > > cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf /home/user1/.login.conf
> > /home/user2/.login.conf ...
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Ernest
> >
> > Thanks, unfortunately no success.
> >
> > When I concatenate all ~/login_conf files with /etc/login.conf I get
> > the following warning message:
> > cap_mkdb: ignored duplicate: me
> 
> So I was mistaken. Try compiling just your ~/login_conf, make sure a
> ~/login_conf.db file appears.
> 
> Ernest

Thanks, that has worked!

Before I always used cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf plus all the user's
$HOME/.login_conf, but just using it on my ~/.login_conf did the
trick. A ~/.login_conf.db file has appeared.

I feel a bit silly for not having come up with it myself. I guess what
confused me was that on another user's account the cap_mkdb compiling
wasn't neccessary, but I don't need to understand that now that it
works for me.

Thanks again.

Christopher