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From: Ulf.Reimann@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ulf Reimann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: /bin/su - + /bin/sh + long TIMEZONE == big problems on 386/ix 2.0.2
Message-ID: <3591@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 90 12:14:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.001704.18149@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:

>We're having big problems with /bin/sh not accepting our TIMEZONE specification
>under 386/ix 2.0.2. It seems to work OK normally, but when you su to any
>user (yourself even) who has /bin/sh as their shell using "/bin/su -", the
>shell bombs out during startup with the error message:

>> 70/2:00:00,280/2:00:00: is not an identifier

>...

>Anyone got any ideas on how to cope with this?. Is it fixed in 386/ix 2.2?

NO, it's not fixed. I'm having a similar problem with my TZ-setting, which is

TZ=MET-1MDT;78,273