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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.admin
Subject: Re: 3B2 nodemane showing up as unix?
Summary: sysadm 'should' have worked.
Message-ID: <937@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 18:25:59 GMT
References: <27@dynasys.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, MO.
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In article <27@dynasys.UUCP>, jessea@dynasys.UUCP ( Sysadmin.) writes:
> I am working on putting a 3B2 on the net and I'm having a problem.  I've used
> the sysadmsh (I think that's what it is called - it's the menu system for the
> sysadmin anyway) and I've change the system name to "sysname", for example.
> When I log on as a user, "sysname" is displayed.  But when I send mail from
> that system to my own system, the return address is "unix!jessea".  This means
> that I can't reply correctly because my system doesn't know site "unix".  What
> do I need to do to correct this and what is causing it?  Thanx in advance.
> 

The sysadm menu *should* have worked fine.  Try this:

   uname -S {insert system name here}

Which is the same thing that sysadm does.  You didn't mention what versio of
unix you're running.  I know, from personal experience, that versions prior
to 3.0 were rather buggy in the sysadm utilities.

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