Hi All,

On Sun Solaris 9 machine I have got the following error if the default
shell is set to /bin/sh "-sh: TIMEOUT=900: is not an identifier"

TIMEOUT is specified in /etc/profile
readonly TIMEOUT=900
export TIMEOUT

If I run set TIMEOUT is not their, but even if I modify the .profile
and set the value again
TIMEOUT=900
export TIMEOUT

The set will show that the TIMEOUT is set but the message every time I
am login "-sh: TIMEOUT=900: is not an identifier" is there.

Thanks,
Ivan

I have no explainnation for your problem but here are my 2 cents :

1- did you check any 0(zero)  O(Uppercase o)  mistake ?
2- If you are talking about the system variable to automatically
disconnet iddle connections this is not the right spelling try
TMOUT=900.

But setting a variable TIMEOUT to charcaters string "900" should not
leads to the behaviour you get...

On 2005-09-30, lowkwell@hotmail.com <lowkwell@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun Solaris 9 machine I have got the following error if the default
> shell is set to /bin/sh "-sh: TIMEOUT=900: is not an identifier"
>
> TIMEOUT is specified in /etc/profile
> readonly TIMEOUT=900

Change this to

   TIMEOUT=900
   readonly TIMEOUT

The syntax of /bin/sh is here more restrictive than the syntax of
ksh or bash. /bin/sh permits just variable names to be given as
argument to ``readonly'' but no assignments.

Andreas.

I'll bet Bourne wishes had had .0001 pennies every time
someone executed his shell.

..

In <1128093863.556276.26060@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> lowkwell@hotmail.com writes:

>On Sun Solaris 9 machine I have got the following error if the default
>shell is set to /bin/sh "-sh: TIMEOUT=900: is not an identifier"

>TIMEOUT is specified in /etc/profile
>readonly TIMEOUT=900
>export TIMEOUT

That's incorrect shell syntax.  It should be:

	TIMEOUT=900
	readonly TIMEOUT

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