Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mcgill-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse 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 Lines: 20 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 afterward