Re: libwww-perl: hostname.pl problem

Fred Donck (ksfdo0@ksepl.shell.nl)
12 Sep 1995 15:15:35 +0000


On Sep 12, 11:13am, Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: libwww-perl: hostname.pl problem
> In <199509120914.LAA02544@bergen.oslonett.no>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:14:28 +0200
> Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no> writes:
> >> uname -n is more portable that hostname:
> >>
> >> chop($host = `uname -n`);            # The preferred SYSV/POSIX method

Wouldn't "chop($host = `hostname | cut -f1 -d.`); " solve your problem ??

ksfdo0@kseu07 > hostname
kseu07.ksepl.shell.nl
ksfdo0@kseu07 > hostname | cut -f1 -d.
ksfdo0
ksfdo0@kseu07 >

> >
> >On my system (which is SunOS 4.1.4):
> >
> >$ uname -n
> >bergen.os
> >$ hostname
> >bergen.oslonett.no
> >
> >It seems like uname gives the wrong answer because it truncates the name to
9
> >characters.
> >
> Point taken. Begining to sound like the Sys::Domain discussion.
> It would be fine if hostname was 'bergen' and domain came from elsewhere,
> If only there was a standard...
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com



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