Wierd ls question SUMMARY

Thanks for the quick response to:

Rainer Heilke
Eugene Schmidt
Kris Briscoe


Rainer and Eugene were right on the money.
This had nothing to do with the patch upgrade, just coincidence and probably
has been this way except no one paid attention until after the upgrade.

Problem was my locale settings are different on my systems. Some have LOCALE
settings in /etc/default/init ie;

LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1


Others have no LOCALE variable setting which defaults to:

LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"


This changes the way the ls command displays a listing. Learn something new
everyday.

Thanks again.

*  Jeff Donovan
*  AT&T Labs Infrastructure
*  (732)420-5656
*  (888)858-7243 pin 127881


-----Original Message-----
From: Heilke, Rainer [mailto:Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:12 PM
To: Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS
Subject: RE: Wierd ls question

Are you sure that's the only change that happened? The symptoms sound
like a change in the locale from English (us_en, or something like that)
to C (which is typically the default Locale). Try explicitly setting
your locale.

IHTH

Rainer Heilke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of
> Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Wierd ls question
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just updated to patch 117000-03 from 108528-18 and someone pointed out
> that a simple ls was sorting differently now, upper case
> letters are now
> being displayed first. However when I look at the binary the /bin/ls
> file hasn't changed. This is consistent though with servers that were
> upgraded and those that weren't.
>
> This is how a simple ls is displaying after the patch:
>
> $ls
> MocarsTicketFactory.properties  identitydb.properties.def
> MocarsTicketRequest.properties  ipam.properties
> PasswordKeeper.properties       lib
> bin                             log.properties
> bulkadd                         logs
> cbawa.properties                monitorthread.properties
> cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
> cbawakeys-def                   nipadynamic.properties
> cert                            nipaug.properties
> cert-def                        properties
> cert.default                    pstore
> classes                         rc
> conf                            servlets
> diruser.properties              share.properties
> ejb                             temp
> env                             webapps
> filewatcher.properties          work
> identitydb.properties
>
> This is how its displayed before the patch:
>
> $ ls
> aracs                           log.properties
> bin                             logs
> bootclasses                     MocarsTicketFactory.properties
> bootlib                         MocarsTicketRequest.properties
> bulkadd                         monitorthread.properties
> cbawa.properties                myserver
> cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
> cert                            nipadynamic.properties
> cert.default                    nipaug.properties
> cgi-bin                         PasswordKeeper.properties
> classes                         properties
> conf                            pstore
> diruser.properties              public_html
> dp                              q
> ejb                             rc
> env                             rwcable.properties.03d
> filewatcher.properties          rwcable.properties.bressan
> identitydb.properties           servletimages
> identitydb.properties.orig      servlets
> IORs                            share.properties
> ipam.properties                 sqlnet.log
> IPDEPOT                         system
> jspWorkingDir                   webapps
> junk                            weblogic.policy
> lib                             weblogic.properties
>
>
>
> Anybody have any clue?
> *  Jeff Donovan
> *  AT&T Labs Infrastructure
> *  (732)420-5656
> *  (888)858-7243 pin 127881
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