Re: Hi, bug report/feature request

[Chris Lewis]

Robin Bowes wrote:
John Peacock wrote:
I'm sure that there is a platform-independent way to get the hostname

How about:

use Sys::Hostname;
$host = hostname;

Returns the non-qualified hostname (at least on this Solaris).  I guess 
when it boils down to it, this machine is misconfigured.  Sigh.