How about this:
import os
os.system("hostname")
On Apr 2, 2:41 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
