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Asked: 2020-01-14 01:10:33 +0800 CST

Changed locale in CentOS 7 using localectl doesn't work

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I want to change the localisation to en_US.utf8 so that all log messages from applications were displayed in english. This works when I prefix the command with LANG=en_US.utf ./my-command, now every output of ./my-command is english.

localectl seems the right tool to make it permanent, so I tried

[root@cnx65 ~]# localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8

But when now running ./my-command, the output is still in german. According to localectl, we have en_US.utf8 set:

[root@cnx65 ~]# localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
       VC Keymap: de_alt_UTF-8
      X11 Layout: us

where locale and also the $LANG variable shows still german:

[root@cnx65 ~]# locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[root@cnx65 ~]# echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8

I also verified that the locale exists with localectl -a:

[root@cnx65 ~]# locale -a | grep en_US.utf8
en_US.utf8

Why is this not working? It's not traceable for me. As you can see, all commands ran as root, so there couldn't be a permission issue.

I don't want to just set the LANG environment variable somwhere globally like in /etc/profiles since the server got provisioned by Ansible, so there's no interactive login shell.

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