Bug 1000214

Summary:	service can not use the language LANG= correctly
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	JianHong Yin <jiyin>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.4	CC:	jamacku, msekleta, xzhou, yuokada
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Description JianHong Yin 2013-08-23 01:05:15 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a rhel6.4 with chinese simplified language set
2. see the follow section: Actual results
3.

Actual results:
[root@dhcp-13-188 ~]# LANG=C  /etc/init.d/autofs  start
Starting automount:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@dhcp-13-188 ~]# LANG=C  /etc/init.d/autofs  stop
Stopping automount:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@dhcp-13-188 ~]# LANG=C service autofs start
正在启动 automount：                                       [确定]
  `--> LANG=C setup  should output in english ...
[root@dhcp-13-188 ~]# LANG=C service autofs stop
停止 automount：                                           [确定]



Additional info:

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2013-08-23 14:37:24 UTC

I am not sure that this is a bug. As it is stated in the manpage "service
runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible,
removing most environment variables". Service is supposed to remove settings of environment variables.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 02:35:46 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2014-03-24 14:47:27 UTC

NOTABUG for reason from comment 2

Comment 5 Yuki Okada 2019-04-19 02:32:11 UTC

It is stated in service(8) that LANG environment variable is passed to the init scripts.

ENVIRONMENT
       LANG, TERM
              The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

In fact, however, LANG is not passed as shown below.

# echo $LANG
ja_JP.UTF-8
# LANG=C service corosync status
corosync は停止しています
# LANG=C /etc/init.d/corosync status
corosync is stopped

It appears this is not an expected behavior.

Comment 6 Jan Macku 2019-11-21 14:17:09 UTC

This bug is currently fixed in upstream[1]. The LANG variable was never intended to be passed, so we fix man page.

Unfortunately we no longer fix these type of bugs in RHEL6.

[1] https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts/commit/1fcae34d2fadb0ec46bd26b086b82ebefe033f65