Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:12:52 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jack Tanner cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /bin/hostname In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Jack Tanner wrote: > On Cygwin, /bin/hostname is part of sh-utils. On RedHat, it's part of > net-utils and provides a much richer set of options. I discovered this the > hard way, when RH8 `/bin/hostname -s` didn't work on cygwin. (On RH8, -s > stands for short host name, e.g., the "host" of "host.example.com".) Is > there any chance Cygwin might get a nicer hostname, or is this really > complicated? > -JT . Simply submit a patch. Or you could contribute (see ) and maintain a net-utils package, which provides a better hostname, and synchronize with the maintainer of the sh-utils package. Or, of course, you could also wait until the maintainer of the sh-utils package has some free time and is willing to bring hostname up to date... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/