Calendars

• You can only administer the calendar database if the administration utilities are running in the same locale in which database was created. If you change your LANG variable, change the system locale using the International Settings Manager, or edit /etc/default/lang, you cannot administer the calendar. Also, the calendar server will not start if the system locale has been changed. If this is the case, you may see ``Fatal Error'' messages from the calendar server when bringing up the machine in multiuser mode.

  To work around this problem, you can start the calendar server with the LANG variable temporarily defined as it was when the database was created.

  Typically, the calendar database is created at initial system load. To determine what LANG was set to during initial system load, examine the file /usr/adm/ISL/iqm_file. Search for the variable IQM_LANGUAGE. This will probably be the language that was used when the calendar database was created.

  If you find that you need to restart the calendar server with the initial LANG setting, follow these steps as root:

  1. Change directories (cd) to /usr/lib/sco/oadb/caldata.

  2. Remove all the data files in this directory; they will be rebuilt by calbuild:
     
     rm ./*

  3. Enter cd /etc/rc2.d.
     

  4. Edit the file P95calserver.

  5. Go to line 20 (following the comments) and find the line:

     DBKEY=6373;     export DBKEY
     

  6. Before this line, add:
     
     IQMFILE=/usr/adm/ISL/iqm_file
     export IQMFILE
     LANG=`grep IQM_LANGUAGE $IQMFILE | awk '{ FS="\"" }{ print $2 }'`
     export LANG

     This will enable the calendar server to start using the locale that was set at installation time, regardless of the system locale setting.

• In French and German locales, scocal does not display in 24-hour time format as it should. You can select 24-hour time format by selecting Preferences → Time & Weekends and clicking on the 24-hour toggle button under Time Format. This change must only be made once.