On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:22 -0500, Chris Lewis wrote: > The point here really is that I'm trying to build code that is portable, > and possibly quite widely deployed. Futzing around with what hostname > returns on a given OS instance simply isn't an option. The real issue
I was guessing that it might have been standardized but for Solaris (SYSVr4) this was documented and configurable before Linux existed. > here is that $self->qp->config(me) is ignoring the config/me file, and > appears to be unconditionally taking hostname. This will mostly be > unnoticable on Linux, where hostname does return the FQDN. Not on my linux boxes. > > BTW: On solaris, the only argument hostname takes is if you want to > _set_ the hostname. "hostname -f" sets the hostname to "-f". So, don't > try that on Solaris at home folks ;-) Read the documention then. Sun documented this properly and you can have the hostname command return what you want. -- --gh
