Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!vsserv!vsserv.scri.fsu.edu!curci From: curci@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (Raymond Curci) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: How can I change uucp name w/o changing `hostname`? Message-ID: <238@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 14:44:25 GMT Sender: curci@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: curci@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (Raymond Curci) Distribution: usa Organization: Florida State University Lines: 12 I have an ULTRIX server on the internet and am about to connect a few UUCP sites that will poll us. We are using the domain name system and the hostname of the machine in question is 'vsserv.scri.fsu.edu'. For simplicity, I would like the uucp name (`uuname -l`) to read 'fsu'. UUCP seems to be getting the system name from the `hostname` command, truncating anything after the first period if any. I am sure it would be possible to change the name if I had source code, but that is not an option. There is no /etc/systemid as in Xenix. Is there some trick that I am missing, or must I change the hostname to 'fsu.scri.fsu.edu' to get the desired effect? Raymond Curci