Re: [MiNT] Problems with recent MiNT beta versions

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

Mario Becroft wrote:

> > All smail images (smail, mqueue, sendmail, ...) crash with some settings
> > of the TZ envariable.  They will crash with illegal settings,
> > unfortunately they will also crash with legal settings that smail doesn't
> > understand.  You should try to provide smail either no $TZ at all or very
> > simple settings like "TZ=XYZ-12".
> 
> I already have the TZ variable set to the value of NZST-12, which is, it
> seems, that same simple format. Do you think it would be beneficial to
> remove it entirely?

Nooo - that's how you make smail crash! :) (Took me a long time to
figure that one out). :)

> Seeing as the problem doesn't occur with the earlier Freemint version
> 1.15.0, does it still seem reasonable that it is the TZ variable which is
> the problem in the first place, considering that I have the variable set
> the same way under both versions?

Prolly not. I had my smail crash for lack of a set TZ, and I tried
lots of FreeMiNT versions, including 1.15.0 until I found out what was
wrong. :)

Maurits.