[Info-vax] HP OpenVMS TCPIP SMTP gives error after change of node name

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-30 16:46:31 +0000, RobertsonEricW said:

> Yes, I too went through the entire TCP/IP configuration using 
> SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM and still had this problem. The 
> interesting thing is that I have renamed nodes before but don't 
> remember having this problem. However, there may have been a subtle 
> difference in how I went about renaming the node this time around as 
> compared to the last time I did it.
> 
> Your suspicion regarding the UNIX-like configuration file may be 
> correct. I found the file 
> SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SYS0.TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP.CONF had an entry:
> 
> Queue-Name                    : TCPIP$SMTP_IQDEV1_00
> 
> within it. After changing this entry to read:
> 
> Queue-Name                    : TCPIP$SMTP_DEMO1_00
> 
> and saving it, I was able to restart the SMTP service without incident 
> and the expected queues once again appeared in the system's list of 
> queues.
> ...

That seems a {limitation?  misfeature?  bug? undocumented feature?} of 
TCP/IP Services.   Whether that queue name string should (optionally?) 
see a %s substitution with the host name string, or is something that 
reconfiguring TCP/IP Services should fix, should get documented as an 
extra step when changing the host name; whatever the chosen resolution. 
 But it seems, well, broken.


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