From: chuck AT ethereal DOT ru (Chuck Bogorad) Subject: Re: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness 27 Jan 1998 23:06:07 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd2bb3$dad5ffc0$0100a8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@hysteria.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Tim Fisher" , "gnu-win32" >3) As you can see above, the hostname of my system is printed in all caps for >some reason. I placed in my /etc/profile the following line: > >export HOSTNAME=`/NT/system32/hostname` > >which works fine on the command line and returns a lower-case version of my >hostname. (The cygwin32 version of hostname returns the hostname in all caps--I >don't know why.) Bash is supposed to use $HOSTNAME for the \h in $PS1. Again, >what is going on here? bash uses "gethostname()" if it is avaliable, or it's own version (in oslib.c). you can delete line "#define HAVE_GETHOSTNAME 1" in config.h and hack this function to downcase name. #if !defined (HAVE_GETHOSTNAME) # if defined (HAVE_UNAME) # include int gethostname (name, namelen) char *name; int namelen; { int i; struct utsname ut; --namelen; uname (&ut); i = strlen (ut.nodename) + 1; strncpy (name, ut.nodename, i < namelen ? i : namelen); name[namelen] = '\0'; return (0); } # else /* !HAVE_UNAME */ int gethostname (name, namelen) int name, namelen; { strncpy (name, "unknown", namelen); name[namelen] = '\0'; return 0; } # endif /* !HAVE_UNAME */ #endif /* !HAVE_GETHOSTNAME */ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".