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From: jw@sics.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Sun sendmail does not set $w macro to hostname
Message-ID: <1301@sics.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 11:27:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: sics.1301
Posted: Thu May 28 11:27:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 11:04:20 EDT
Reply-To: jw@sics.UUCP (Johan Widen)
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Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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I recently tried to install a new sendmail.cf file on our Sun 3 work stations.
The new sendmail.cf uses the $w (hostname) in expansions. 'w' should have
gethostname() as the default value. The sendmail provided with Sun 3.0 and
Sun 3.3 appears to set 'w' to the string "w".

A work around for this is to specify the hostname explicitly. Put something
like this at the beginning of sendmail.cf:

# A bug in Sun 3.? sendmail sets the w macro to the string "w"
# rather than gethostname()
Dwobelisk
Cw$w

assuming that the host name is 'obelisk'.
-- 
Johan Widen
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
PO Box 1263, S-163 13 SPANGA, SWEDEN
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