dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) (07/04/90)
redwards@viar.UUCP (Robert L. Edwards) writes: >Help! >We are running bnews 2.11 most recent version as of June 1990. Is >there any way to display the time in the Date: line in the header in >the local time zone rather than in GMT? >It's driving me crazy! The problem is that init (and thus getty or uugetty) has no idea what the timezone is (no TZ environment variable). So, when a uucp login occurs, getty execs login, which execs uucico...and no TZ ever gets set up. My solution was to write a new uucp login shell, which sets up TZ, then execs uucico. I call it, uutizo, and here it is. (You may have to switch things around for your flavor of unix. This was written for a unix pc. This principle is 100% portable, however.) /* * uutizo.c * * Program to be used as the login shell for any uucp login. * It first sets the environment variable TZ to the correct * timezone, the execs uucico. * * This prevents the use of incorrect times (the EDT default) * when a uucp login runs rnews, rmail or updates the uucp log. * * Configure all two defines below, then compile. * * To install, copy the executable into /usr/lib/uucp, * $ su * # cp uutizo /usr/lib/uucp * # cd /usr/lib/uucp * # chown uucp uutizo * # chgrp bin uutizo * # chmod 755 uutizo * * then replace all occurrences of 'uucico' with 'uutizo' in /etc/passwd. * */ #define TZDEF "TZ=MST7MDT" /* TZ=<contents of /etc/TZ> */ #define UUCICO "/usr/lib/uucp/uucico" /* uucico on your system */ main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { if (putenv (TZDEF)) perror (argv[0]); execv (UUCICO, argv); } David