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From: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: *** SERIOUS BUG IN SVR3 (with fix) ***
Message-ID: <3142@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 15:47:12 GMT
References: <675@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Ingo Cyliax)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <675@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>Hi net.folks,
>     A customer was upgrading from 2.0.4 to 3.1, and his
>/etc/TIMEZONE file had the following in it:
>
>        # set the timezone
>        <TAB>   TZ=PST8PDT
>        #<TAB>  TZ=PST7PDT
>
>     Init runs all its commands with:
>
>        /bin/sh -c "exec COMMAND"
>
	.....
>
>        sh: "#^ITZ=PST7PDT": not an identifier

Sounds like a bug in Sys V sh, it should just ignore lines that start with
"#". It should do something like this ... :

	Script started on Thu May 19 10:44:30 1988
	cyliax.ea % cat > t.out
	# echo Hello World
	echo Hello World
	cyliax.ea % chmod +x t.out
	cyliax.ea % sh -c "exec t.out"
	Hello World
	cyliax.ea % 
	script done on Thu May 19 10:45:19 1988

Note that this only printed 1 "Hello World" !.


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