On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > So, your hostname is : HOSTNAME=www.mm-vanecek.cc. What does this show > you at a users prompt? Is it 'WWW' ? > Just curious. Because if I make my hostname able.george.smth I am sure > the prompt will have it shortened up to just 'able'?? > > Maybe I am wrong but it seems that this is what happened to me before..
It's shortened because 'hostname' is executed in /etc/profile: HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` 'hostname -a' will give you the full qualified name. Werner -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
