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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: host name conflicts (help!)
Message-ID: <115@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:04:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.115
Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:04:58 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:42:27 EDT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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     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

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