Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Shell says... is not an identifier (was TIMEZONE).
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.111331.1299@virtech.uucp>
Date: 13 Oct 90 11:13:31 GMT
References: <453@oha.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <453@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
>
>Look closely at all places where TZ may have been wrongly
>entered as $TZ on the left of =.

Guys, the problem is not that someone is setting the variable incorrectly.
It is that if the TZ variable is set in /etc/TIMEZONE (where it is supposed
to be set) then when init passes this to the shell it wreaks havoc.

Before I get zillions of messages from people that say "I set TZ in 
my /etc/TIMEZONE file with no problems" I will add:

	This (the problem) is only the case when you use some of the
	extended TZ features, not for a simple TZ=EST5EDT type of TZ.

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