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From: bruce@ogccse.ogc.edu (Bruce Jerrick)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: /bin/hostname vs. $w macro in sendmail
Keywords: hostname canonical
Message-ID: <5810@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 89 03:40:32 GMT
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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I wonder if anyone else has the same wish I do:

sendmail doesn't give you access (in sendmail.cf) to the machine's
hostname as set by /bin/hostname (4.3-oid systems).  (For clarity I'll
call that the /bin/hostname; it's really what gethostname() returns.)
The $w macro is set from the canonicalized hostname (h_name in the
hostent structure returned by gethostbyname() ).

I would like to use our /bin/hostname (ogicse) in UUCP sender rewrites
(the usual prepend the local machine name).  I don't want to have to
add a machine-specific user-defined macro for our UUCP name (but you
know I will).

Does IDA by any chance have a pre-defined macro for the /bin/hostname,
or better yet, for the machine's UUCP name, however set?  (4.3-oid
UUCP usually uses the /bin/hostname; some others do not.)

Or has anyone else wanted access to the /bin/hostname in sendmail.cf?
I'd like to add a pre-defined macro for that; I hesitate only because
of the resulting non-standardness.

        Bruce Jerrick
        Oregon Graduate Center, er, uh, Institute
        InterNet:  bruce@cse.ogc.edu
        UUCP:      ogccse!bruce
        Voice:     (503) 690-1157

PS.  All instances of "ogc" are about to be changed to "ogi" because it
will eliminate confusion about what a "Center" is or is not.  Sure.