Re: {bb} Description line / alternate name for a host?

["Daniel O Winkless" <wink@usgs.gov>]

Hi Misty,

        Is bbaliasname a possibility for you?  From the manual:

6.16                 Using an alias name for the current host in etc/bb-hosts

                Sometimes you may want to use an alias for the hostname
                instead of the hostname returned by the 'uname -a' command.
                To do so, on the BB client you wish to use an alias,
                create an etc/bbaliasname file that you want with the alias
                hostname as its contents and BB will use that hostname.
                Then use that alias hostname in the all bb-hosts files (BBDISPLAY,
                BBPAGER, BBNET).  Also, you must declare the "testip"
                directive in the bb-hosts file of the BBNET host because
                the alias is unlikely resolvable by DNS otherwise the
                network tests will likely fail.


                Dan

Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@borkholder.com> Sent by: owner-bb@bb4.com 12/03/2004 09:26 AM Please respond to bb

To:        bb@bb4.com         cc:                 Subject:        {bb} Description line / alternate name for a host?

Is it possible (maybe with BBGEN) to put an alternate
name for a host on the 
BBDISPLAY page, or maybe a mouse-over with a description?  My manager
 
doesn't think my barnyard inspired hostnames (baa, oink, honk, etc) are
descriptive enough (oh come on!!!) but I would rather not change all my
DNS 
records!  By the way I am using DNS for conn test, so BB really does
need to 
know the real hostnames.

Thanks for any ideas,
Misty
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