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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: hiding local nodes
Message-ID: <1047@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 16:44:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: decuac.1047
Posted: Wed Sep  3 16:44:56 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 21:19:57 EDT
References: <219@munsell.UUCP> <634@mips.UUCP> <20292@rochester.ARPA> <254@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
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In article <254@pinney.munsell.UUCP>, pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) writes:
> Thanks to all those who responded to my request.  I needed to hide the
> existance of all my local machines from the outside world. 
> 
> One early suggestion was to put
> 
> FE/etc/hosts.local %s
> 
> up near the top of the sendmail.cf and put
> ... 
> This didn't work.  It couldn't open the file "/etc/hosts.local %s"

Since I was one (of probably many) who suggested the FE solution,
a WAG as to why it didn't work (for those of you who'd like to
try...).

You need a TAB before the %s to separate the fields.  Based on the
error message, I suspect you had a space.  (OH!  NO!  I CAN'T
BELIEVE....)

I bet ...

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