On 2006-11-22 13:41:22 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:17:03AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Well, the result of the hostname command depends on the /etc/hosts > > file and if your configuration is incorrect, it may not give you a > > consistent result. > > Not here. It uses the /etc/hostname file. I changed the entry in > /etc/hostname to "jim", rebooted, and was greeted with
"hostname" without argument uses /etc/hostname (via the gethostname(2) function), but if you give the --fqdn option, resolver(3) will be used too, i.e. /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/host.conf files, as documented in these man pages. "hostname -s" seems to return the short host name corresponding to the FQDN (but the hostname(1) man page is not clear). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
