On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 13:39:07 Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>Should the command "hostname" show only the short hostname ("host") or the
>FQDN ("host.domain.tld")
According to the man page, you are supposed to use "hostname -fqdn" to get
the FQDN. That implies that the command by itself only returns the hostname.
The man page also refers to the gethostname(2) system call. That command
only retreives the unqualified hostname, not the FQDN.
hostname --help
Tony
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