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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: host name conflicts (help!)
Message-ID: <325@luke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 12:38:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.325
Posted: Wed Aug 21 12:38:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:37:11 EDT
References: <115@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
Lines: 15
Summary: 

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).
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