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From: tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: UUCP problem
Message-ID: <11119@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 89 23:16:34 GMT
References: <483@ispi.UUCP> <609@g4lzv.co.uk> <6336@turnkey.TCC.COM> <423@brian386.UUCP> <8020@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <8020@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <423@brian386.UUCP> news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane) writes:

	[talking about the Permissions file for BNU UUCP]

>>I discovered the MYNAME command myself, by looking at the uucheck file
>>with less.  I am sure it is documented, but I dunno where.
>
>I'm sure I saw it mentioned in the 3B2 manuals but there is no mention
>of it in the SysVr3.2 386 manual.  I hope it isn't going away because
>I need it for a pair of machines on a lan that pretend to be a single
>machine to most (but not all) of the world.  Obviously they can't
>lie to each other...

This almost goes without saying nowadays, but:

The Nutshell handbook "Managing UUCP and Usenet" from O'Reilly & Associates
covers MYNAME= as well as all the other points discussed here.  Unless
you are blessed with unusually good vendor documentation, you should
probably have a copy of this if you want to be a UUCP site.

I won't pollute the newsgroup with any further commercialism (nor am I
associated with O'Reilly at all, just a satisfied customer) but you
can reach them yourself at uunet!ora!nuts.

-- 
Tom Neff                  tneff@well.UUCP
                       or tneff@dasys1.UUCP