Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:24:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301100724.h0A7OVtx037054@idiom.com> From: Eric De Mund To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE? Reply-to: Eric De Mund X-Humans-Reply-To: Eric De Mund X-POM: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (48% of Full) Organization: Ixian Systems, Inc. Hello, Why is hostname(1) output in UPPERCASE, when the native Windows 2000 hostname.exe outputs lowercase? Is this something I've unwittingly enabled? Regardless, shouldn't RFC 1178's suggestion be followed? (It states, "convention dictates that computer names appear all lowercase.") Or is this a sh-utils rather than a cygwin bug? Here's my current output: ead AT COWBERRY ~ $ hostname COWBERRY ead AT COWBERRY ~ $ /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/hostname cowberry ead AT COWBERRY ~ $ This is in a brand new and complete 2003.01.09 download and install of cygwin on a Windows 2000 Professional SP2 machine (under both bash(1) and zsh(1)). See the output of "cygcheck --sysinfo", below, if necessary. Many thanks, Eric ------------------------------ Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Jan 09 23:07:03 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\pkg\cygwin\bin C:\pkg\cygwin\bin c:\WINNT\system32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT HOME = `c:\home\ead' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/cygdrive/c/home/ead' USER = `ead' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 19085Mb 50% CP CS UN PA FC d: hd N/A N/A e: cd N/A N/A f: cd N/A N/A C:\pkg\cygwin / system binmode C:\pkg\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\pkg\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode . /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 58k 2002/05/07 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll 54k 2002/01/27 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll 6k 2002/06/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcharset-1.dll 644k 2002/12/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll 493k 2002/11/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygcurl-2.dll 380k 2002/07/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb-3.1.dll 326k 2002/06/26 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb2.dll 487k 2002/07/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll 136k 2002/10/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-0.dll 50k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygexslt-0.dll 45k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 35k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll 19k 2002/02/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 490k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-12.dll 488k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-14.dll 63k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-1.dll 63k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1-1.dll 24k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-4-1.dll 24k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-1-1.dll 14k 2002/07/18 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguilereadline-14.dll 14k 2002/09/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygguilereadline-v-12-12.dll 17k 2001/06/28 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll 20k 2002/10/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll 306k 2002/04/27 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cyghttpd.dll 929k 2002/06/24 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll 22k 2001/12/13 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll 28k 2002/09/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll 21k 2001/06/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll 45k 2002/02/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll 119k 2002/02/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll 59k 2002/09/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll 32k 2003/01/04 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll 26k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 20k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll 156k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 175k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll 226k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 202k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll 15k 2001/04/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 12k 2002/01/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll 40k 2001/11/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll 39k 2001/11/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll 175k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll 179k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll 170k 2002/01/21 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll 22k 2002/06/09 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll 108k 2001/06/28 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll 127k 2002/10/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll 165k 2002/12/08 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll 550k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtcl83.dll 12k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip83.dll 253k 2002/02/10 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll 217k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtix4183.dll 830k 2002/12/19 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygtk83.dll 25k 2002/07/14 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygungif-4.dll 2689k 2002/11/16 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxerces-c21.dll 633k 2002/07/22 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxml2-2.dll 41k 2002/01/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll 46k 2002/01/20 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll 152k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxslt-1.dll 15k 2002/03/17 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygxsltbreakpoint-1.dll 50k 2002/03/12 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 880k 2002/12/25 C:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.18 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 69 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Wed Dec 25 15:37:50 EST 2002 Shared id: cygwin1S3 41k 2002/05/14 C:\pkg\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygPropList-0.dll Cygwin Package Information Package Version ELFIO 1.0.0-1 WindowMaker 0.80.0-2 XFree86-base 4.2.0-1 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