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From: glass@SODA.BERKELEY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: uuname -l, gethostname etc.
Message-ID: <9101040036.AA07280@soda.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 91 00:36:53 GMT
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glass@SODA.BERKELEY.EDU writes:

>I have a machine with the hostname "soda.berkeley.edu" .  I'm trying
>to set it up so that it can do uucp but it thinks its "uuname -l" is
>"soda.Berkeley.".  The name is bad enough but the trailing dot breaks
>lots of stuff (mainly sendmail).  So how do I convince my machine that
>my uuname is really "soda"?  uuname in and of itself is relatively
>innocuous but uucico seems to have the same confusion.

guess I should've responded to my message a few days ago.  Regarding
the responses:

	I doubt /usr/lib/uucp/sitename works since strings doesn't
	find it	in the uucico binary.

Simplest and dumbest solution is the MYNAME option in your Permissions file.
for example if solipsist calls soda.berkeley.edu and really wants to
get a Shere=soda type message and not soda.berkeley. you can something
like the following

LOGNAME=gsolip MACHINE=solipsist MYNAME=soda VALIDATE=solipsist COMMANDS=rmail REQUEST=yes SENDFILES=yes

That works just fine now.  Still can't find the source of the flow
control thats botching up the uucp connection...but I don't think its
the apollo.

later,
Adam