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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: stupid timezone questions
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 02:50:38 EDT
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> How does one . /etc/TIMEZONE incoming uucico in SYSV.2? so that
> you can get correct time?  Thanks!

Well, you can try the following script:

	#! /bin/sh
	#
	# Yes, I know the above probably won't help on a vanilla
	# S5 system, but it can't hurt, and on some S5 systems
	# it *will* work.
	#
	. /etc/TIMEZONE	# forcibly set TZ
	#
	# Get around Bourne shell bug, present in all vanilla
	# Bourne shells prior to the S5R3 one, that causes "$@"
	# to expand to "", rather than nothing, if there are no
	# arguments to the script.
	#
	if [ $# != 0 ]
	then
		exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico "$@"
	else
		exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
	fi

Call this script something like "/usr/lib/uucp/uucicoscript", and
make that, rather than "/usr/lib/uucp/uucico", the login shell for
UUCP accounts.  UNIX permits a login shell to be a shell script,
unless a vendor removed this capability in a state of confusion.
This script will run "uucico" with the proper value of TZ.