adam@metaware.metaware.com (At these prices, I can't NAME names) (01/23/91)
We have just upgraded our central mail/uucp host to SunOS 4.1 it is a sun3 we have encountered two problems and a possible bug. Problem #1 We have a neighbor that was usually called "HOSTNAME A" and now has decided to change to different machine "HOSTNAME B" BUT they still want to use "HOSTNAME A" as if it were the host that was the host still exchanging uucp/mail traffic. We have the nutshell handbook on uucp and have RTFM'd but no clue as to aliasing hosts. I hope the answer isn't "modify your sendmail.cf" Problem #2 We have a site that we with to force a bend in the path we reach them by. I.E. If we mail to host1!user we want to have that translated to host2!host1!user. We are exploring pathalias and other addons to mail, but again do not want to touch sendmail.cf (not that I haven't tried touching it). Possible bug (Problem #3, this is interesting so read on!) We have a chat script that looks like this host Any ACU 19200 12344567890 "" \r in: foo word: Slime and it doesn't work, so we looked at the debug session and we figured out that the host we were talking to needs a ^J instead of a ^M when you get to the login and password prompts. so we modified the chat scripts to suppress ^M and insert a ^J like so: host Any ACU 19200 12344567890 "" \r in: foo\n\c word: Slime\n\c and while this works fine for the password part of the chat script we found (through excessive twiddling) that for some reason sunos will suppress the ^M on the last (password) field it still sends a ^M on the login field. This messes up the whole thing, and no amount of kludging will circumvent it. any help is, as always, greatly appreciated -- adam margulies metaware incorporated INTERNET: adam@metaware.com UUCP: uunet!metaware!adam ATT: (408)429-META x3016