I have a bash script that displays the following error before it even starts (the error is displayed as soon as bash is called/launched):

 

/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)

 

I have to get rid of this error, the script is launched through inetd by my monitoring server and it can't parse the output because of that error at the beginning. So I checked locale:

 

root@server:~# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

 

Seems like an easy fix would be to change LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 here. How do I do that in Unraid?

Edited March 10, 20215 yr by dnLL

I tried editing my .bash_profile without any success. I tried adding export LC_ALL=C and export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" but I still get the same error, it's as if the .bash_profile wasn't loaded when the script is started by xinetd.

Here is a full example:

 

root@server:~# cat /usr/bin/check_mk_agent
#!/bin/bash
echo "test"

root@server:~# /usr/bin/check_mk_agent
test

root@server:~# telnet localhost 6556
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
test
Connection closed by foreign host.

 

Something more interesting:

 

root@server:~# cat /usr/bin/check_mk_agent
#!/bin/bash
locale

root@server:~# /usr/bin/check_mk_agent
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8"
LC_ALL=

root@server:~# telnet localhost 6556
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US)
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
Connection closed by foreign host.

root@server:~# locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8

 

xinetd launching the bash script is trying for some reason en_us which isn't supported by Unraid.

Edited March 10, 20215 yr by dnLL

Fixed it by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.xinetd, changed all the en_us to en_us.utf-8. Now I need to script this to prevent this from happening again next reboot.