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From: mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: How to change nodenames (chgnod)
Message-ID: <817@dual.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 10:10:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 10:10:51 1984
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Yeah, /etc/chgnod is a UniSoftism - they wrote it apparently because
I screamed very loudly about the very thing just discussed here -
System III/V machines should NOT be shipped without a way to change
the nodename. It is basically a script of commands for adb, nothing
too complex, except for making sure that exactly the right number
of characters are edited into /unix (or whatever name is specified).
I won't post it here because UniSoft probably considers it proprietary
(well, maybe), but I will mail a copy of the analagous thing that
I developed while I was waiting to people who want it.

This approach is certainly better for us than the old way, which
had unisoft compiled into the mail program....it makes some
sense to get the node name out of uname....