Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!unisoft!greywolf From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: mailing to le1 on sun workstation Message-ID: <3414@unisoft.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 91 01:37:39 GMT References: <1318@pivot.sbi.com> <1991Feb28.194930.22580@mp.cs.niu.edu> Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) Organization: Foo Bar and Grill Lines: 29 <1991Feb28.194930.22580@mp.cs.niu.edu> by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) # In article <1318@pivot.sbi.com> art@pivot.sbi.com (Art Bernstein) writes: # > # >I have a system with two ethernet addresses le0 (prod_sys) le1 (test_sys). # >When mail is sent to test_sys (le1) an error is returned. The system wants # # That's what you get when you use two different names for the same system. # (This is generally a bad practice). That's what you have to do when you have a machine with two (or more) ethernet boards in it. This is generally not avoidable unless you want to muck about with multiple sendmail.cf files and /etc/hosts files and...well, you get the idea. It's a lot easier to try and set up a machine with two (or more) names than it is to manipulate different config files and try and maintain a distribution list. The first one you only have to do once. # # =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= # Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science # Northern Illinois Univ. # DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940 -- # The days of the computer priesthood are not over. # May they never be. # If it sounds selfish, consider how most companies stay in business.