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From: dar@telesoft.com (David Reisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Node Name help, please
Message-ID: <703@telesoft.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 09:37:46 GMT
Organization: David Reisner, Consulting
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I've another question for those who know the NeXT better than I do.
I want to set my hostname (for use in prompts, uucp/mail, and in case
anyone should ask).  If this was some other system, I'd probably put
'hostname mysysname' near the beginning of /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local.  It
seems to me that the NeXT would prefer that I use something like
'HOSTNAME=mysysname' in /etc/hostconfig, but the present (and essentially
undocumented) 'HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-' bothers me.  I don't know what it
does, and I don't want to just try the change.

Can someone tell me the appropriate approach or approaches (if I should
use something else for uucp/mail)?

Thanks.

-David
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