David Champion wrote: > > It says "uname: not super user" because uname(2) is the syscall that > sets the hostname. > > Just use uname -n on all operating systems, and don't trouble yourself > with the switch. "uname -n" returns the nodename. The nodename is the > "real" hostname, and has nothing to do with the DNS or /etc/hosts name > that your IP address resolves to, and should not contain any dots. (If > it does, your system setup needs adjustment.)
are you sure this is true for FreeBSD? i find that various things complain if i don't have "hostname" set to the fqdn (and yes, my IP and hostname, as well as the loopback interface are in /etc/hosts). also, the fact that the 'hostname' command in FreeBSD has a '-s' switch (which trims off any domain information) seems to indicate that at least some people set it this way; uname -n seems to report the same thing as hostname: jazz% uname -n jazz.hq.newdream.net i'm sure there may be a more elegant way to do this, but i trim it down with something like like this; seems to work on most operating systems i've tried it on (with various versions of sed) - i suppose it wouldn't work if there were numbers in the hostname, so probably using s/\..*//g might be better. S_HOSTNAME=$(hostname | sed "s/\.[A-Za-z]*//g") -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
