| Subject: (7.4) How come my host name comes out twice in the Path line? |
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The INN server puts its name in the Path line of every article that it receives. Obviously, it has to do this. The default configuration has inews put the local host in the Path header. If nobody posts on the server and you use fully-qualified domain names on your workstations, then everything works the right way. (If `hostname` doesn't give an FQDN on your machine, you can work-around this by setting the "domain" value in inn.conf; remember that innd never re-reads inn.conf. You must "ctlinnd shutdown x" and then re-start the server). Many people don't want the client machines to put their name in the Path header. To do this, set INEWS_PATH to DONT. Finally, let me say that it is probably a mistake to have a "pathhost" line on any machine other than your server if you set INEWS_PATH to DO. If you doubt this, please trace the article flow for yourself. If you are curious about the effect of INEWS_PATH, read the nroff source -- not the formatted output -- of doc/inews.1 ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |