Mysterious error message: scenario please

[Henry Spencer]

As I recall, the "is not an identifier" message means that the shell
found an environment string which was not in the "variable=value" form
that pre-V8 shells insist on.  This means either somebody has mangled
the environment, or else dear old init isn't setting up a proper
environment before forking children and a shell is eventually getting
run without any of its ancestors doing anything about an environment.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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