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From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Elm bug
Message-ID: <676@vector.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 01:47:36 GMT
References: <369@ispi.UUCP> <433@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <433@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>In article <369@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>>the SCO configure utility which requires that the node name be either 0
>>characters long or >4 characters long
>Thanks for confirming why Configure fails when I try to install "cmx1"
>as a client machine's node name!

Appendix D of O'Reilly's "Managing UUCP and Usenet" is a program which
patches the node name into the uname structure of a running kernal.  The
idea is that you run "sysname foo" in /etc/rc.  As written, it will not
work on XENIX, but the changes would probably be simple, e.g. change
"nlist()" to "xlist()", "/unix" to "/xenix", etc.  You might want to
check this out.
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