john@hopf.math.nwu.edu (John Franks) (05/27/89)
We use rrn as a news reader for several Suns running SunOs 4.0 and are served by a machine in the local computer center. When a user posts a followup article his return address is set by a call (I think) to gethostname(). We have always set this to the one word local host name. Thus when I post a follow up my return address is set to john@hopf. I know I can edit it, but I would like to get the default right. The manager of our news server suggested that I not hack on rrn, since it is better to have everyone at our institution running the same version. I agree (I don't want to re-install the hack every time a new version of rrn comes along). He suggested setting hostname to our fully qualified name; e.g. hopf.math.nwu.edu, instead of just hopf. This fixed the rrn problem but broke several things with local uucp connections. For example, /usr/spool/uucp/D.hopf has to be changed to /usr/spool/uucp/D.hopf.ma and I think our hostname in the L.sys file of the machines we connect with has to be changed (also to hopf.ma?) So anyway, here's my question. What is "hostname" supposed to return, 'hopf' or 'hopf.math.nwu.edu'? Please respond by mail. Thanks. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University Internet john@math.nwu.edu Bitnet j_franks@nuacc