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Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?

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From: David Herron
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 17:11
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> Where does that somewhere! come from?
> 
> I am running SCO UNIX 3.2.2 with the MMDF package as supplied by SCO.
> My mail server is running Sendmail on 4.3 BSD.
..

Simple:  You have not told MMDF what your UUCP name is.  There is a
declaration to put into your mmdftailor which is:

	UUNAME uucp-name

If SCO includes the MMDF Administrators guide then this is mentioned
in that manual.

BTW, the `somewhere' name is a fallback kinda thing for when it doesn't
know that the UUCP name is.  It has two sources of information: A compiled
in constant, or the above mentioned declaration.  Obviously SCO cannot ship
binaries with a compiled-in constant ...  I do not know of a programmatic
way of determining the system's UUCP name, sort of opening a pipe to uuname(1).



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