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From: henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: [Another?] Big, nasty bug in A/UX rmail and/or uuxqt
Summary: Solution
Keywords: rmail TZ problem
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.184432.15555@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Dec 90 18:44:32 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.115338.3828@panix.uucp> <1990Dec11.164126.3540@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Dec12.111135.17246@panix.uucp>
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In article <1990Dec12.111135.17246@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>Aha.
>This is a known bug. Known (and hated) by me for 18 months, acknowledged
>by Apple two weeks ago. (Thanks Vicki...)
>
>Fortunately it's very simple to deal with. Put the following two lines in
>your uudemon.hr file (or whatever shell script you use to call out) before
>you invoke uucico:
>TZ=`cat /etc/TIMEZONE`
>export TZ
>
Here's a similar solution sent to me by Vicki:
>Look at /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr
>Be sure it says:
>	cd /usr/lib/uucp
>	env "TZ=`/bin/cat /etc/TIMEZONE`" uucico -r1
>	uulog
>
>also look at /usr/lib/uucp/uushell; it should contain:
>	env "TZ=`/bin/cat /etc/TIMEZONE`" /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
>
>That is, be sure these things set the Time Zone variable (TZ) before
>kicking off uucico.  uucico (in the form of the tzset() function) is
>brain damaged. 
>
>   Vicki Brown   A/UX Development Group	Apple Computer, Inc.
>   Internet: vlb@apple.com			MS 50UX, 10300 Bubb Rd.	
>   UUCP: {sun,amdahl,decwrl}!apple!vlb		Cupertino, CA  95014 USA
>              Ooit'n Normaal Mens Ontmoet?  En..., Beviel't?
>        (Have you ever met a normal person?  So..., did you like it?)

I've set this up, but haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Let's give a big round of applause to the folks at Apple who take
the time to do tech. support over Usenet.  Thanx!!

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