CHANGIHOSTNAME
CHANGILOCALHOST
CHANGINODENAME
CHANGIPATHHOST
HOSTNAME
NNTPNEIGHBOR
NNTPSERVER
During TCP/IP configuration, the HOSTNAME definition is added to CONFIG.SYS, but usually doesn't include the domain. Because Changi needs to know the fully qualified domain name of the local host, you must either change the HOSTNAME setting or define CHANGIHOSTNAME.
Example:
SET HOSTNAME=os2point SET CHANGIHOSTNAME=os2point.ping.de
By default, Rnews transfers articles to the local host using the local interface configured with ip 127.0.0.1. Chanx uses the same channel to query the local host for exisiting message-ids, while Chanco and Expire control the server through this interface. If you can't or don't want to set up a local interface, you can change this by setting CHANGILOCALHOST to a different hostname or ip address.
SET CHANGILOCALHOST=192.168.222.1
By default Changi finds the local hostname by taking the front part of the environment variable HOSTNAME upto the first dot.
The environment variable CHANGINODENAME allows you to override this behaviour.
SET CHANGINODENAME=os2point
The HOSTNAME environment variable should specify the full domain name of your local host. However, during TCP/IP configuration this variable will be set to the name of the local host without domain part. To avoid conflicts with other TCP/IP applications when changing HOSTNAME, you may set CHANGIHOSTNAME.
Example:
SET HOSTNAME=os2point.ping.de
Example:
SET NNTPNEIGHBOR=lilly.ping.de
Unfortunately the same environment variable is used by other news processing software. In case of conflicts you should set NNTPNEIGHBOR.
Example:
SET NNTPSERVER=news.ibm.net
URL: changi/manual/envihost.html Created: 3 August 1996 Revised: 21 November 1996 Author: harald@os2point.ping.de |