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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm Configure
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Date: 3 Jul 90 07:38:47 GMT
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In <642@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur) writes:

   | I have some questions and observations about the Elm Configure script.

   | Who runs Elm on just one machine, and wants everything (including
   | ~ pathnames) hardcoded?
We do ;-)
Actually, we are of course running Elm on a lot of machines, but one
subset of that is a HP cluster with 31 diskless clients. In HP's
propriatary diskless protocol, all clients see *exactly* the same
filesystem as the server (unlike Sun's solution).
In this situation you can speak about "one system" and that's why
we've all the pathnames hardcoded.

   | Are there any installations out there that *have* to have the hostname
   | hardcoded?
Yes, there are ;-]
Same environment as above: none of the diskless clients are running a
sendmail daemon, so none of them will accept mail from another system.
The only system that does, is the HP cluster server. In this situation
it's very annoying to have the name of a diskless client machine appear
in the "From:" header line. What we want is that all diskless clients
pretend that they are the cluster server, so we really need hardcoding
the hostname of the server. (Yes, I know this can be fixed with
sendmail too!)


		hope this helps,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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