Re: Install of libwww-perl problems

It's the "http://" prefix that makes it a bad hostname.

LWP comes with a little script talk-to-ourself which is using Sys::Hostname to determine the hostname of the current system. Apparently something is configured incorrectly... so I would look into Sys::Hostname to figure out why it's returning the hostname with a leading http://.

You can call it standalone like this:

$ perl -MSys::Hostname -e'print hostname()."\n"'
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(Update: fixed typo — thanks Anonymous Monk!)

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Re^2: Install of libwww-perl problems by Anonymous Monk on Jun 08, 2009 at 14:53 UTC
hostname is a function :) `perl -MSys::Hostname -le " print hostname "` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Install of libwww-perl problems by ARiccela (Novice) on Jun 08, 2009 at 15:50 UTC
@AnonymousMonk - Since I am fairly new to Perl and Linux, I did not feel comfortable proceeding with the install until I knew exactly what was causing the problem. I didn't want to do a 'broken install' and then have to go back and fix something I really don't know how to fix! And thank you for the clarification on 'hostname.' I was assuming it was a Linux system var or Perl var. @Almut - Thank you for the explanaion and a direction to pursue!	[reply]
Re^3: Install of libwww-perl problems by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2013 at 09:37 UTC
If you are running a Webserver , make your hostname match the ServerName	[reply]