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- From: wbe@bbn.com (Winston Edmond)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: uucp problem
- Message-ID: <WBE.92Dec18203614@crystal.bbn.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 04:36:14 GMT
- References: <35215@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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- In-reply-to: sinteur@ooc.uva.nl's message of 18 Dec 92 10:02:31 GMT
-
- sinteur@ooc.uva.nl (John Sinteur) asks:
- I changed my system name (both 'hostname' and 'uuname') a while ago,
- and since then I can't send out mail ... All my [remote] messages
- bounce with the following error:
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- uux failed ( 75 )
- 550 Postmaster... User unknown
-
- The last line just says you don't have a "Postmaster:" entry in your
- /etc/aliases file. All sites should have a Postmaster entry. Alias it to
- the user that deals with mail problems (probably yourself).
-
-
- The only other help I can offer is to grep for the old hostname in /etc/* and
- /etc/uucp/*. E.g., /etc/uucp/Permissions may still be using the old host
- name, and someone may have put the hostname into /etc/sendmail.cf instead of
- using the $w and $m macros.
- -WBE
-