tahsin@rd-atlas.UUCP (Tahsin Choudhuri) (04/13/89)
We have a Sun-3 (3.5) whose hostname is atlas, and it is known as rd-atlas to others on the usenet. I would like to keep using rd-atlas as its uucp name when I make a uucplink with other machines and atlas as its hostname. I am having trouble to establish a link between this Sun and another machine which is running HDB uucp. In that remote machine, in the Systems file under HDB if I use rd-atlas, then I (i.e. Sun) gets disconneted with error message: 'You are unknown to me'. But, if I put atlas in the Systems file then everything works OK; but the users in the remote machine then have to use atlas!user to send mail to the Sun, which I don't like. I want the remote machine to know the Sun as rd-atlas (from uuname(1) on the remote machine) and use rd-atlas!user to send mail to the Sun. This problem was resolved using L.aliases file before, what's the equivalent of this in HDB uucp or how do you resolve this under HDB uucp ? I would very much appreciate to hear from anybody who has already solved this problem. Thanks in advance. Please, email directly if possible, I will post a summary if others are interested. Note: One solution is to change Sun's hostname to rd-atlas or have duplicate entries in the Systems file, I am looking for something different than these. -- Tahsin Choudhuri, MN10-2515 ARPA: tahsin%rd-atlas@src.honeywell.com Honeywell Inc. ResD MN 55422 UUCP: uunet!rutgers!umn-cs!srcsip!rd-atlas!tahsin
rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) (04/13/89)
In article <458@rd-atlas.UUCP> tahsin@rd-atlas.UUCP (Tahsin Choudhuri) writes: >We have a Sun-3 (3.5) whose hostname is atlas, and it is known as rd-atlas to >others on the usenet. I would like to keep using rd-atlas as its uucp >name when I make a uucplink with other machines and atlas as its hostname. > >I am having trouble to establish a link between this Sun and another machine >which is running HDB uucp. In that remote machine, in the Systems file under >HDB if I use rd-atlas, then I (i.e. Sun) gets disconneted with error message: >'You are unknown to me'. But, if I put atlas in the Systems file then >everything works OK; but the users in the remote machine then have to use >atlas!user to send mail to the Sun, which I don't like. I want the remote >machine to know the Sun as rd-atlas (from uuname(1) on the remote machine) >and use rd-atlas!user to send mail to the Sun. > >This problem was resolved using L.aliases file before, what's the equivalent >of this in HDB uucp or how do you resolve this under HDB uucp ? I would very >much appreciate to hear from anybody who has already solved this problem. >Thanks in advance. Please, email directly if possible, I will post a >summary if others are interested. You do this in the Permissions file; there are two ways. 1) You make an entry using MACHINE= rather than LOGNAME=. You follow this with a clause MYNAME=foo, then the usual READ, WRITE and COMMANDS options. Looks something like this: MACHINE=HDB-system MYNAME=atlas \ WRITE=/usr/spool READ=/usr/spool \ COMMANDS=rmail:uucp:rnews 2) If they're coming in through a login/password sequence, you can assign them a unique login name and have that be the trigger in the Permissions file. Same idea, different implementation: LOGNAME=no-rd-alias MYNAME=atlas \ WRITE=/usr/spool READ=/usr/spool \ COMMANDS=rmail:uucp:rnews Hope this helps. Bob Halloran Distributed Programming Tools Group ========================================================================= UUCP: {att, rutgers}!mtune!rkh DDD: (201)957-6034 Internet: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM USPS: AT&T Bell Labs, 200 Laurel Ave Rm 3G-314 Middletown NJ 07748 Quote: If Basic is for backward children, and Pascal for naughty schoolboys, then C is the language for consenting adults - Brian Kernighan