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From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: An AKA for UUCP?
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.141604.29419@vmp.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 14:16:04 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.193232.2672@fts.ocug.on.ca>
Organization: Video Marketing & Publications, Inc., Oradell, NJ
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In article <1990Nov20.193232.2672@fts.ocug.on.ca> michael@fts.ocug.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
>
>  fts1 was my primary connection, and still is. I have changed
>both fts1's maps to declare fts1!julie to be dead and added 
>information linking latour to julie and fts1 to julie. This works
>find if _fts1_ reroutes the mail. If the mail is already routed,
>then it winds up in /usr/spool/uucp/julie. Since fts1's login
>on latour is IDENTICAL to that of julie (and I have Permissions
>set up properly on both machines), I was hoping that fts1 would
>simply dial up julie, (get latour) but deliver the mail anyway.
>No such luck -- fts1 complains that it isn't talking to the right
>machine. 
>  I'm about to try dialing fts1 from latour with the 'uujulie' login,
>but I doubt that is going to work.
>  If I could convince latour to poll as 'julie' now and then, all
>would be well. The thing is, I can't seem to figure out where the uname
>is set. (I can change my 'hostname' whenever I want...) The only time
>I entered it was during 'suninstall'

If you're running HDB, in the Permissions file on latour, add:

MACHINE=fts1 COMMANDS=rmail:rnews MYNAME=julie

During the uucico handshaking, latour will identify itself as
"julie".  If it's using julie's login, then there is no way
for fts1 to know it's not talking to julie.

Then you must poll fts1 from latour occasionally.  If this is a temporary
thing, and you want to be known as both "latour" and "julie" to fts1,
then you can change the MYNAME as needed.  This is not recommended as
a permanent solution.
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Orlan Cannon                            oc@vmp.com
Video Marketing & Publications, Inc.    (800) 627-4551
Oradell, NJ 07649