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From: stacy@sobeco.com (s.millions)
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Subject: Re: uucp name .vs. hostname
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.135023.16267@sobeco.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 13:50:23 GMT
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In <573@spim.mips.COM> rogerk@MIPS.com (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>... matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes:
>> ...
>>is there a way to set the uucp name to be different from the hostname in
>>RiscOS 4.51?
>
>Actually, it's an obvious question *we're* missing in the documentation, as
>was AT&T in the document whence ours is derived.  Use the undocumented
>"MYNAME" option in the Permissions file:
>
>	LOGNAME=foo MYNAME=bar ...

Unfortunately, if the host you are talking to uses the VALIDATE option
in thier Permissions file entry for your host, they will get your
real name. To avoid this problem, I wrote a short program to change
the nodename field of the utsname structure in the kernel. It runs
from rc2 after the hostname is set. We have been using this for
4 or 5 months now with no ill effects on either the uucp or tcp
side of this host (our mail/news gateway).

-stacy

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