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by **Chris Boyc** » Wed, 20 May 1998 04:00:00

I changed the hostname of an OpenServer 5.0.4 machine using
uname -S. I also fixed the entry in /etc/hosts. Everything
works great, except that all mail messages still have a sender

ID numbers include the new name!

If I go into sendmail configuration, it says the machine
name is the new one.

Anyone seen this, or know where the old name could be lingering?

Thanks!

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by **Richard Seede** » Thu, 21 May 1998 04:00:00

> I changed the hostname of an OpenServer 5.0.4 machine using
> uname -S. I also fixed the entry in /etc/hosts. Everything
> works great, except that all mail messages still have a sender

> ID numbers include the new name!

> If I go into sendmail configuration, it says the machine
> name is the new one.

> Anyone seen this, or know where the old name could be lingering?

> Thanks!

> --
> ______________________________

> CHRIS BOYCE
> Systems Administrator
> ProTix Inc.
> 4513 Vernon Blvd
> Madison WI 53705-4964 USA

> <http://www.protix.com>

> ______________________________

Did you generate a new sendmail.cf file (mkdev cf; option 8)? If not,
it may still be using the old name.

Richard Seeder

by **Jeff Lieberma** » Fri, 22 May 1998 04:00:00

On Tue, 19 May 1998 17:26:00 -0500, Chris Boyce

>I changed the hostname of an OpenServer 5.0.4 machine using
>uname -S. I also fixed the entry in /etc/hosts. Everything
>works great, except that all mail messages still have a sender

>ID numbers include the new name!

>If I go into sendmail configuration, it says the machine
>name is the new one.

Cause uname -S newname doesn't change every occurrence of the
system name in every file that might have the host name. See:
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/new_name.txt
for a shopping list of files to tweak. The most likely culprit
is /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor which is still used with sendmail.

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Changed host name - why does old name linger in sendmail?

Changed host name - why does old name linger in sendmail?

Changed host name - why does old name linger in sendmail?

Changed host name - why does old name linger in sendmail?