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Started by David Herron
Thu, 06 Aug 1992 17:11
Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?
Author: David Herron
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 17:11
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). <- David Herron <david@twg.com>, Just: Another E-Mail hacker ... <- <- As for the prevalence of gratuitous stupidity in modern life, well, <- need I say more than "MS-DOS"? -- Bill Janssen
Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?
Author: Kevin Darcy
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 20:32
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 20:32
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In article <1992Aug6.170943.286@twg.com> "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes: >.. > >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). On an AT&T 3B2, the system call "uname" works fine for this purpose. Perhaps other SysVr3-like machines have that syscall as well... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kevin@cfctech.cfc.com | Kevin Darcy, Unix Systems Administrator ...sharkey!cfctech!kevin | Technical Services (CFC) Voice: (313) 759-7140 | Chrysler Corporation Fax: (313) 758-8173 | 25999 Lawrence Ave, Center Line, MI 48015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?
Author: David J. Fiander
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 14:56
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 14:56
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According to "David Herron" <david@twg.com>: >.. >> 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 > Sorry, dave. If that was the case, then the mail would say 'tailorme'. The 'somewhere' is from rmail. When rmail starts up it tries to find out where the piece of mail arriving from stdin came from. It checks a variety of places, including the From_ line. If there is no host in the from line, then rmail looks for an environment variable which identifies the sending host. The University distribution of MMDF had rmail checking for the variable "ACCTSYS", which is (at best) a very old convention. SCO neglected to change the environment variable to check in early releases of SCO MMDF, so rmail can't find the variable. The MMDF TLS from SCO correctly looks for the environment variable UUMACHINE. If you don't want to, or can't, upgrade your MMDF, then move /usr/bin/rmail to /usr/mmdf/bin/rmail, and create a shell script called /usr/bin/rmail which sets ACCTSYS equal to UUMACHINE and then execs the real rmail.
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