On Fri, 15 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Actually it is in a few dozen places. it is in your MTA config > > eg /etc/smail/config, it is in your news server probably if you have > > one, and other places as well. > > Perhaps we ought to come up with some policy for this -- store an > /etc/hostinfo file which contains names, ip addresses, and domain names > which refer to the current host, and require that all programs who need > to find the hostname read it, or that their config utils read it. > Changing hostnames and dns names is a pain ...
This would make life difficult for me. My machine is pick.sel.cam.ac.uk (go and look at the website, please :) ), but when posting news I have to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] (UCS rules). So having separate config files is better for me. Yours, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
