Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mintaka!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!Anselmo-Ed From: Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: LOCALDOMAIN and $w Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 14:10:52 GMT References: <1990Jul20.203238.12791@maytag.waterloo.edu> <1990Jul22.165315.25316@maytag.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 16 In-reply-to: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu's message of 22 Jul 90 16:53:15 GMT >>>>> On 22 Jul 90 16:53:15 GMT, gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) said: Guy> Yes, I do know all this, and it's not what I want. The whole Guy> point of $w and $=w is that I don't have to explictly assign the Guy> host name in the .cf file; it should be done automatically. We Guy> use the same sendmail.cf on several dozen machines. I need to Guy> have some way of assigning both domain names without having the Guy> host name in the file. Try something like: # All nicknames for this host Fw/usr/local/lib/net_database/this_host %s -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed