Strange effects of TZ on su -l
Uwe Doering
gemini at geminix.mbx.sub.org
Mon May 28 20:27:46 AEST 1990
john at design.axis.fr (John H) writes:
>Here is a wierdy I came across a while ago. I have my "TZ" environment
>variable set to:
>TZ="HFH-1HFE-2;84/2:00,273/2:00"
>So I get DST at the right time here in France. It works very well.
>But! Whenever I do a "su -l" (or any of the sysadm scripts that do
>a "su -l" internaly) I get the error:
> 00: Invalid identifier
>just after I've entered the password. Does anyone know what might
>be going wrong here?
>I see the same effect in 386/ix 2.0.2 and Esix System 5.3.2 Rev. C.
I've experienced the same problem here in Germany. There seems to be a
bug in `su' that prevents it from working with the long form of the
time zone string. Eventually I gave up and returned to the short form.
It's easier to change this string twice a year than to change it whenever
you want to use `su'. Hope this is fixed in Interactives 2.2 release.
Uwe
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