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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Mysterious error message: scenario please
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 19:17:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 19:17:27 1986
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As I recall, the "is not an identifier" message means that the shell
found an environment string which was not in the "variable=value" form
that pre-V8 shells insist on.  This means either somebody has mangled
the environment, or else dear old init isn't setting up a proper
environment before forking children and a shell is eventually getting
run without any of its ancestors doing anything about an environment.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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