Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!kg6kf!marc
From: marc@kg6kf.AMPR.ORG (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: problem with B news
Message-ID: <688@noe.kg6kf.AMPR.ORG>
Date: 28 Dec 90 03:00:05 GMT
Sender: usenet@kg6kf.AMPR.ORG
Reply-To: marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Organization: Noe Systems, San Francisco
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Here's the problem: my machine's UUCP name is noe.  I also have an MX
on the Internet so that my machine is known as kg6kf.ampr.org.  I don't
want the news software giving my machine name as noe.UUCP so I am trying
to get B news to call me kg6kf.ampr.org.

I tried commenting out UNAME so the software doesn't try to use the
uname() call to get my node name.  From what I read in the source, if
USG is defined uname() is used anyway.  I tried defining UUNAME as
/etc/uucpname and put my node name in there, in the form of a struct
uts_name.  That resulted in my address becoming noe.kg6kf.ampr.org.

Finally, I defined MYDOMAIN as .AMPR.ORG and HIDDENNET as kg6kf. Now,
my machine name is correct in the header, article references contain
noe.kg6kf.ampr.org, my path is listed as ..!kg6kf!marc and I haven't
even tried to fix what rn does to the Reply-To: field (see above).

My machine is a '286 running Microport System V Release 2.  Porting
code to the '286 is a nightmare, so unless someone tells me that
getting C news running is a breeze, I'll continue to believe that
it's probably easier to tweak what I have here. (2.11 B)

Can anyone help?

^M