On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:11:57PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Matt Zimmerman] > >> a) Can I get the hostname in my shell script another way (this could be a > >> question for this list)? > > > > getent hosts foo.bar.baz > > getent is available on Linux and Solaris (7 and 8). > > It is not available on Tru64 Unix 5.2, Irix 6.5.15, Mac OS X 10.2, > HP-UX (11.00 and 11.22) and AIX (5.1).
But the question was directed to debian-devel, not bunch-of-broken-OSes-devel. -- - mdz
