Re: Finding a machine's name?

One way, my $hostname = `/bin/hostname`; Given that, you can call gethostbyname to get more information.

If you're in a shell environment, you're likely to have the purely perlish,

my ($name, $aliases, $addrtype, $length, @addrs) = 
    gethostbyname $ENV{'HOSTNAME'};
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That will probably be available in the cgi environment, too, but probably not in cron.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Finding a machine's name? by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 28, 2004 at 14:36 UTC
This method also works in Windows by skipping the /bin/ my $host = `hostname`; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Finding a machine's name? by Red_Dragon (Beadle) on Sep 28, 2004 at 14:47 UTC
Many thanks for the thorough example	[reply]