Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:29369 comp.unix.ultrix:6514 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How does sendmail get UUCP host names? Keywords: uucp Message-ID: <1991Mar12.092938.836@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 09:29:38 GMT References: <1991Mar12.011642.17723@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Reply-To: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 18 In article <1991Mar12.011642.17723@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>, bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) writes: |> I'm having trouble installing UUCP on a decstation 3100. If I install |> a new host in L.sys, and create the appropriate directories, kill sendmail |> freeze the configuration file, and restart sendmail, when I mail |> to the new host, it does not find it. The mailer returns a message that |> says: host "newhost" not connected to pslu1 by uucp. |> |> Where does sendmail pick up the UUCP hosts, and how? Look for the line that contains "L.sys" in the sendmail configuration file, make sure that it is not commented out :-) and check that the scanf(3s) format string on that line will indeed pick out the UUCP hostnames from L.sys. -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>