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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: SCO's HDB and "long" site name
Message-ID: <10034@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 89 14:41:20 GMT
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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Now that I upgraded from SCO 2.2.4 to 2.3GT, a great unhappiness descended
upon me because of SCO'c compilation of HoneyDanBer uucp.
My nodename (which uucp looks at) or the first line of my /etc/systemid
(which uuname -l looks at), is, in either case, 'jpradley'; I am so
registered in the uucp maps.

But this version of uucp truncates my nodename to seven bytes.
Trying to communicate with a site that knows me as 'jpradley' when uucico
emits only 'jpradle': it doesn't work.

I called the SCO hot-line for a patch to quash the truncation, and was
told that there was no workaround, I'd just have to live with it.

Stubborn as I am, here's the workaround which I found:
In my Permissions file, _every_ entry now contains MYNAME=jpradley;
and I added the catch-all line:
  MACHINE=OTHER MYNAME=jpradley.
Thank goodness this is evaluated _after_ uucico calls uname() and truncates
what resides in utsname.nodename.
-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr@jpradley.UUCP