Re: HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

* Matt Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041230 01:30]: > >From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set > the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local > aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working. > > $ cat hostalias > deb ftp.debian.org > > $ ex

HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

>From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working. $ cat hostalias deb ftp.debian.org $ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias $ ftp deb ftp: deb: Name or ser