mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (08/15/85)
Help! Are we the only site who wants to do this? We are running
4.2bsd on a VAX-11/750. We want our hostname (as returned by
gethostname()) to be different from our uucp name (as printed by 'uuname
-l'). We had things this way for a while. This was OK; everything
worked. But then we started getting news. Surprise! Rnews expects
gethostname() to return the machine's news hostname! So when our news
feed runs uucp to us rnews refuses to work right.
Is there any fix for this? Has such been posted (remember, we just
started getting news)?
Thanks much,
--
der Mouse
System hacker and general troublemaker
CVaRL, McGill University
Hacker: One responsible for destroying /
Wizard: One responsible for recovering it afterwarditkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) (08/21/85)
In article <115@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >But then we started getting news. Surprise! Rnews expects >gethostname() to return the machine's news hostname! So when our news >feed runs uucp to us rnews refuses to work right. When you configure your news software, it asks if it should use gethostname or uuname. Just set the proper define in defs.h (actually, you can just leave out the defines for UNAME and GHNAME - then it will default to uuname -l). -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * Just part of the stock at "Uncle Bene's Farm" * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!itkin ***
rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (09/04/85)
We want our hostname (as returned by
gethostname()) to be different from our uucp name (as printed by 'uuname
-l').
We have the same problem here, where each of our 1000 local nodes has its
own gethostname() name, but the outside world knows us as just plain "apollo".
I fixed it by using sys5 uname() instead of gethostname(). On our system,
uname() returns the "outside" name. The #defines in defs.h make this
easy to do.