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From: ken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: a few questions on the 3B1
Message-ID: <487@maxepr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 14:56:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: maxepr.487
Posted: Fri Oct 16 14:56:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 23:23:42 EDT
References: <1913@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler)
Organization: Brassler Engineering Co., Mill Valley, CA
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Keywords: 3B1, 7300, warranty, repair, finger

In article <1913@gryphon.CTS.COM> jimmy@denwa.UUCP (Jim Gottlieb) writes:
>I notice that the machine defaults to Eastern Time (i.e. incoming uucp
>calls are logged in EDT,...

I believe this is a U*ix problem, rather than just a 3b1 problem,
and stems from the fact that when uucico is used as a login shell,
it does not inherit the environment variables exported by init(?) -
in particular, TZ. Also, uucico doesn't read a .profile, where TZ
could be set.

A previous discussion in a different newsgroup offered the following
fix:

1. /etc/TZ should contain a string describing your timezone. For the
west coast, it would be "PST8PDT" (no quotes), where 8 is the number
of hours separating PST from GMT.

2. Change the /etc/passwd entries for uucp & nuucp to point to a
shell script, rather than uucico. I use /usr/lib/uucp/uushell.

3. Create /usr/lib/uucp/uushell containing the following:

if [ \( -f /etc/TZ \) -a \( -r /etc/TZ \) ]
then
	TZ=`cat /etc/TZ`
	export TZ
fi
exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico $*

This has cleared up the problem on my system for all log entries
written by uucico and it's children (I don't know about 'who').
-- 

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