uuxqt problem (was Re: TZ/rmail problems again)

[Jeff Mann]

In article <1991Apr13.183632.16997 at intacc.uucp> mann at intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) writes:

Describing a problem with A/UX 2.0 uuxqt in which it tries to exectute:

cmd PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=`/bin/cat rmail zog 

>Obviously, `/bin/cat rmail` is a Bad Thing! This only happens
>to me with mail from one particular system (yunexus). One thing I noticed was
>that they log in with a nine-character name: uuyunexus. I can't really think

Nah, I knew that wasn't it - and it does happen with other systems.  I
captured uuxqt's debugging output in the uuxqt wrapper script.  The
problem is not consistent - mail works, and then doesn't, from the same
site, to the same user (different uuxqt runs). I'm afraid I don't know 
enough about uuxqt internals to figure out what's going on. The only time
uuxqt is ever executed is forked from uucico. 

Here's the output which demonstrates the problem. The first case shows the
bad command line, ...TZ=`/bin/cat rmail zog, while the second one shows
...TZ=EST5EDT rmail zog.

** START **
User - uucp
process 
file - .
file - ..
file - .XQTDIR
file - SYSLOG
file - AUDIT
file - hidden-x-files
file - LOGDEL
file - LCK.WXQT
file - uuxqt.out
file - X.intaccN875f
U uucp mnetor

# return status on failure

Z

# return address for status or input return

R uucp

F D.mneto415b072

I D.mneto415b072

C rmail zog 

xfile - X.intaccN875f
fin - /usr/spool/uucp/D.mneto415b072, fout - /dev/null, sysout - intacc, user - uucp
cmd - rmail zog 
cmd = rmail
cmd PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=`/bin/cat rmail zog 
shio - PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=`/bin/cat rmail zog 
cat: cannot open rmail
cat: cannot open zog
status 512
exit cmd - 512
file - .
file - ..
file - .XQTDIR
file - SYSLOG
file - AUDIT
file - D.intaccXA0004
file - hidden-x-files
file - LOGDEL
file - LCK.WXQT
file - uuxqt.out
file - LOGFILE
file - o.SYSLOG.Z
file - o.Log-WEEK.Z
file - D.mnetorBC0004
file - LCK.XQT
file - C.mnetorAD0004

** START **
User - uucp
process 
file - .
file - ..
file - .XQTDIR
file - SYSLOG
file - AUDIT
file - LOGFILE
file - hidden-x-files
file - LOGDEL
file - X.intaccN8760
U uucp mnetor

# return status on failure

Z

# return address for status or input return

R uucp

F D.mneto469b170

I D.mneto469b170

C rmail zog 

xfile - X.intaccN8760
fin - /usr/spool/uucp/D.mneto469b170, fout - /dev/null, sysout - intacc, user - uucp
cmd - rmail zog 
cmd = rmail
cmd PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=EST5EDT rmail zog 
shio - PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=EST5EDT rmail zog 
status 0
exit cmd - 0
file - .
file - ..
file - .XQTDIR
file - SYSLOG
file - AUDIT
file - LOGFILE
file - hidden-x-files
file - LOGDEL
file - o.SYSLOG
file - uuxqt.out
file - o.Log-WEEK.Z
file - LCK.WXQT
file - LCK.XQT

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