[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-09, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-09-09 11:03:36 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> If VSI want to sell systems to new non-existing VMS customers, it's
>> going to have to produce something a lot better than this current
>> mess. You should not have to shut everything down and reboot the
>> system just to update the TCP/IP hostname (which is clearly what
>> the intended usage model here is.)
>
> One of many such areas.
> You've only scratched the surface of changing a hostname.

I only needed the external facing TCP/IP hostname changing.
All the other references are not changing as there's no need for that.

> There are packages where it's faster to reinstall the package than to 
> get it to change host names.

Then that package is either defective or poorly written IMHO.

> IMO, hand-edited configuration text files aren't the way forward for 
> system and network configurations, either.
>

What configuration interface would you use ?

Simon.

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