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From: ber@enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: How to change nodenames
Message-ID: <750@enea.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 22:51:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: enea.750
Posted: Mon Sep 10 22:51:49 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 08:08:38 EDT
Organization: ENEA DATA, Sweden
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Giving a machine a uniq six character name might be a problem,
but what sometimes could be even more difficult is to give
the machine any name at all instead of the name it is shipped
with as default so that mail and uucp understands it.

I'v recently tried to hook up three different sites to the net.
They are V7 or System III based machines without source code.
Even if there are files as /etc/sysid or /usr/local/whoami it's
not fully supported by mail and uucp.

From the following I get

	Altos with XENIX Version 2.5a insists on "altos86"
	Don't know how to change it.

	ZEUS (don't know the version) naturally says "ZEUS".
	Don't know how to change it.

	A Victory Computer System with System III first gave "victory"
	but that could be changed with the chgnod(1M) command.


Vendors shouldn't send out systems with default names if there isnt't
any way to change it locally. Does anyone know how nodenames are
changed in different brands of Unix?

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		Bjorn Eriksen
		ENEA DATA Sweden

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