I'm having a surprisingly difficult time figuring out a good way to identify the hostname of the server that is running a background process. If it was a front-end thing, I could just use "request.env.http_host" or something. However, since it's a background process, there is no request (or really anything).
One approach is something like "import socket; host = socket.gethostname" which I think grabs it from /etc/hostname. However, I've seen it advised to only put the machine name in /etc/hostname, not the fully qualified domain name. Also, this doesn't seem to work on my Mac where I would expect 127.0.0.1:8000 or localhost. What I am trying to do is include the correct URL in emails when run on different staging servers (ie prod, qa, dev). And many of my emails or generated via background processes, not necessarily as a result of user action on a web page. Has anyone been doing this?
