On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:10:02PM -0000, Paul Walsh wrote:
> had a look at the code. I presume "hostname -f" on some UNIX variants
> gives the hostname.
Specifically, it gives the fully qualified hostname. Hostname on its own
gives an unqualified name.
> Unfortunately, under Solaris, it has the undesirable effect of setting the
> hostname to -f !
Oh, I can see that would be a problem. I suspect -f only works on linux (or
rather, only with the version of hostname that's normally used on linux).
> I'd suggest modifying line 366 to read:
>
> $hostname = `hostname`;
>
> or maybe
>
> $hostname = `uname -n`;
uname -n also gives the unqualified name. Is there any portable way to get
the FQDN?
laphroaig:~>hostname
laphroaig
laphroaig:~>hostname -f
laphroaig.castle
laphroaig:~>uname -n
laphroaig
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