On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:41 -0500, Chris Lewis wrote: > Like Solaris usually does (grr), "hostname" returns the host node > name > (no dots), not the FQDN.
This is correct behaviour. Sun's hostname command, iirc, uses the hosts table and is well-documented[*]. You can have it return long names by default it you like (reversing the order of entries following the IP address in /etc/hosts may do it) but that's liable to break NIS or NIS+ if you are using that. I don't have a solaris box but you might try 'hostname -f' ... I always use 'hostname -s' when I want the short name. [*] The practice of using FQDN is an unfortunate linux novelty. I realize that it's over 10 years old now though ... :-( -- --gh
