Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!RAND.ORG!salzman%gaucho From: salzman%gaucho@RAND.ORG (Isaac Salzman) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: WP setup for non AFS sites Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 18:18:14 GMT Article-I.D.: gaucho.MZN4haj01Eth8_52Ek References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 > Excerpts from info-andrew-pend: 16-Nov-89 Re: WP setup for non AFS sites > "Craig F. Everhart"@andr (1348) > We try to get the fully-qualified host name by calling gethostname(), > then conditionally appending a domain name. If you have the AndrewSetup > preference ``ThisDomainSuffix'', we'll append its value to the > gethostname() result; i > bothered by this. At least, that's the intent. > I'd argue that you should set ThisDomainSuffix to ``rand.org'' in your > AndrewSetup, which then becomes shareable. That doesn't make the WP > code try to use the /afs/rand.org/service... path, but it might make you > happier in other ways. yup, setting ThisDomainSuffix does the trick. thanks! but i don't think i saw that documented anywhere.... no, it doesn't make WP work any better, but it does make me happier! :-) -Isaac (salzman@rand.org).