How can I change uucp name w/o changing `hostname`?

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.UUCP
Wed Oct 4 10:03:55 AEST 1989


In article <238 at vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> curci at vsserv.scri.fsu.edu (Raymond Curci) writes:
> 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.

Unless you wish to patch the uucp executable to return some fixed name,
that's what you get - no override or aliasing available...

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