kdavis@Sun.COM (05/09/87)
How does one . /etc/TIMEZONE incoming uucico in SYSV.2? so that
you can get correct time? Thanks!
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Ken Davis - Letterman Army Medical Center - Presidio of San Francisco
{ptsfa,well,hoptoad}!lamc!kdavis kdavis@optimis-pent.arpaguy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) (05/10/87)
> 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.
rcw@upas.UUCP (05/11/87)
This line == can of raid In article 928, kdavis@sun.COM writes: > How does one . /etc/TIMEZONE incoming uucico in SYSV.2? so that > you can get correct time? Thanks! We have found that the following script called /usr/lib/uucp/uushell solves this problem on our System V system. You may have to modify this somewhat if you have an /etc/TIMEZONE script (apparently the standard). On our system, TZ contains only the following: MST7MDT : if [ -f /etc/TZ -a -r /etc/TZ ]; then TZ=`cat /etc/TZ` export TZ fi exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico $* Specify /usr/lib/uucp/uushell instead of /usr/lib/uucp/uucico in the /etc/passwd file. Admittedly, it is kludgy, but it works. Robert C. White, Jr. Graphics Information, Inc. UUCP: seismo!nbires!hao!scicom!qetzal!gii!rcw
dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) (05/11/87)
In article <7312@brl-adm.ARPA>, ptsfa!lamc!kdavis@Sun.COM writes: > How does one . /etc/TIMEZONE incoming uucico in SYSV.2? so that > you can get correct time? Thanks! I have /bin/sh as the login shell for uucp logins with the following .profile . /etc/TIMEZONE exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico Obnoxious, but it works. Can someone at AT&T explain why they didn't see fit to make it a system global overideable with an environment variable? After all, there aren't *that* many systems with all of the users in different time zones. -- David L. Smith sdcsvax!sdamos!sdeggo!dave, ihnp4!jack!man!sdeggo!dave, hp-sdd!crash!sdeggo!dave sdeggo!dave@sdamos.ucsd.edu "Morals are one thing. Ratings are EVERYTHING!"