[Another?] Big, nasty bug in A/UX rmail and/or uuxqt
Henry C. Schmitt
henry at chinet.chi.il.us
Fri Dec 14 05:44:32 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec12.111135.17246 at panix.uucp> alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>Aha.
>This is a known bug. Known (and hated) by me for 18 months, acknowledged
>by Apple two weeks ago. (Thanks Vicki...)
>
>Fortunately it's very simple to deal with. Put the following two lines in
>your uudemon.hr file (or whatever shell script you use to call out) before
>you invoke uucico:
>TZ=`cat /etc/TIMEZONE`
>export TZ
>
Here's a similar solution sent to me by Vicki:
>Look at /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr
>Be sure it says:
> cd /usr/lib/uucp
> env "TZ=`/bin/cat /etc/TIMEZONE`" uucico -r1
> uulog
>
>also look at /usr/lib/uucp/uushell; it should contain:
> env "TZ=`/bin/cat /etc/TIMEZONE`" /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
>
>That is, be sure these things set the Time Zone variable (TZ) before
>kicking off uucico. uucico (in the form of the tzset() function) is
>brain damaged.
>
> Vicki Brown A/UX Development Group Apple Computer, Inc.
> Internet: vlb at apple.com MS 50UX, 10300 Bubb Rd.
> UUCP: {sun,amdahl,decwrl}!apple!vlb Cupertino, CA 95014 USA
> Ooit'n Normaal Mens Ontmoet? En..., Beviel't?
> (Have you ever met a normal person? So..., did you like it?)
I've set this up, but haven't had a chance to try it yet.
Let's give a big round of applause to the folks at Apple who take
the time to do tech. support over Usenet. Thanx!!
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