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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
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Subject: Re: lpr/lpd problems (revisited)
Message-ID: <HANCHE.91Mar7135242@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Date: 7 Mar 91 12:52:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.135954.39621@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
	<1991Mar6.213032.39820@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
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In-Reply-To: hdtodd@eagle.wesleyan.edu's message of 7 Mar 91 02:30:32 GMT

In article <1991Mar6.213032.39820@eagle.wesleyan.edu> hdtodd@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

   Unfortunately I need the fully-articulated name as hostname to
   support sendmail.

Not true, at least not if you are willing to put the hostname
explicitly into sendmail.cf (excerpt from ours):

----------------
# top-level domain we are a part of
DTno
# Next level domain
DAunit
# offical next-level-up complete domain name
DJ$A.$T
# official domain name
Dwimf.$J
# official host domain name
Djhufsa.$w
----------------

In an admittedly longwinded way, this ends up defining the two macros
$w and $j as imf.unit.no (our domain name) and hufsa.imf.unit.no (mail
host name) respectively.  I believe $j is used internally by sendmail
and is equal to the machine's hostname if you haven't said differently
in the config file.  We use just hufsa for the hostname, and sendmail
performs like it ought to anyway given the above definitions.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY