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From: pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
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Subject: Re: hiding local nodes
Message-ID: <270@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 09:23:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: pinney.270
Posted: Fri Sep  5 09:23:29 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Sep-86 09:07:53 EDT
References: <219@munsell.UUCP> <634@mips.UUCP> <20292@rochester.ARPA> <254@pinney.munsell.UUCP> <1047@decuac.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: pac@pinney.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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In article <1047@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>In article <254@pinney.munsell.UUCP>, pac@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) writes:
>> I needed to hide the
>> existance of all my local machines from the outside world. 
>> FE/etc/hosts.local %s

>You need a TAB before the %s to separate the fields.  Based on the
>error message, I suspect you had a space. 
>Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center

Uh... no.  I still get "Can't open file /etc/hosts.local	%s".

Are you sure this isn't an Ultrix-ism? I've never used it much but I've
heard that lots of things (like /etc/ttys) were changed dramatically
(and usually for the better!). 

We are running generic 4.2 here.
					pZ

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