tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) (10/13/90)
In message <1990Oct9.001704.18149@hades.ausonics.oz.au>, greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes: > > the shell bombs out during startup with the error message: > > 70/2:00:00,280/2:00:00: is not an identifier The shell says this when you say, for example: x="a-b"; $x="c-d"; # instead of x="c-d" because the second line is converted into "a-b"="c-d" and "a-d" is not an identifier. Look closely at all places where TZ may have been wrongly entered as $TZ on the left of =. -- Yours etc., Tony Olekshy. Internet: tony%oha@CS.UAlberta.CA BITNET: tony%oha.uucp@UALTAMTS.BITNET uucp: alberta!oha!tony
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (10/13/90)
In article <453@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes: > >Look closely at all places where TZ may have been wrongly >entered as $TZ on the left of =. Guys, the problem is not that someone is setting the variable incorrectly. It is that if the TZ variable is set in /etc/TIMEZONE (where it is supposed to be set) then when init passes this to the shell it wreaks havoc. Before I get zillions of messages from people that say "I set TZ in my /etc/TIMEZONE file with no problems" I will add: This (the problem) is only the case when you use some of the extended TZ features, not for a simple TZ=EST5EDT type of TZ. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170