On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Jack Tanner wrote: > On Cygwin, /bin/hostname is part of sh-utils. On RedHat, it's part of > net-utils and provides a much richer set of options. I discovered this the > hard way, when RH8 `/bin/hostname -s` didn't work on cygwin. (On RH8, -s > stands for short host name, e.g., the "host" of "host.example.com".) Is > there any chance Cygwin might get a nicer hostname, or is this really > complicated? > -JT
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Simply submit a patch. Or you could contribute (see <http://cygwin.com/setup.html>) and maintain a net-utils package, which provides a better hostname, and synchronize with the maintainer of the sh-utils package. Or, of course, you could also wait until the maintainer of the sh-utils package has some free time and is willing to bring hostname up to date... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
