marc@kg6kf.AMPR.ORG (Marc de Groot) (12/28/90)
Here's the problem: my machine's UUCP name is noe. I also have an MX on the Internet so that my machine is known as kg6kf.ampr.org. I don't want the news software giving my machine name as noe.UUCP so I am trying to get B news to call me kg6kf.ampr.org. I tried commenting out UNAME so the software doesn't try to use the uname() call to get my node name. From what I read in the source, if USG is defined uname() is used anyway. I tried defining UUNAME as /etc/uucpname and put my node name in there, in the form of a struct uts_name. That resulted in my address becoming noe.kg6kf.ampr.org. Finally, I defined MYDOMAIN as .AMPR.ORG and HIDDENNET as kg6kf. Now, my machine name is correct in the header, article references contain noe.kg6kf.ampr.org, my path is listed as ..!kg6kf!marc and I haven't even tried to fix what rn does to the Reply-To: field (see above). My machine is a '286 running Microport System V Release 2. Porting code to the '286 is a nightmare, so unless someone tells me that getting C news running is a breeze, I'll continue to believe that it's probably easier to tweak what I have here. (2.11 B) Can anyone help? ^M
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (12/30/90)
In article <688@noe.kg6kf.AMPR.ORG> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: >My machine is a '286 running Microport System V Release 2. Porting >code to the '286 is a nightmare, so unless someone tells me that >getting C news running is a breeze... I can't say *that* exactly, but C News does run just fine on 286s, although relaynews and expire reportedly have to be compiled large-model. At least some of the folks who have tried such ports have reported "no serious trouble". I can't comment on your particular system, because we long ago stopped keeping track of all the different systems our stuff is used on. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry