On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:32 +0000, Dan Track wrote: >> Hi Bryn, >> >> Many thanks. I tried hostname -s but I keep getting the following: >> >> hostname: Host name lookup failure > > Possibly your resolver on the servers is not configured to search its > own local domain. Add a line like this to /etc/resolv.conf: > > search mylocaldomain.com > > Or, if you configure the resolver via dhcp add a directive on the server > to pass this over to clients. > >> This may be because the hostname's are short already e.g just >> "server1" instead of "server1.example.com" >> >> I've updated teh script to your recommendations but I still get the >> local hosts hostname in teh output instead of the remote servers >> hostname. Any other thoughts? >> >> I now run the following: >> >> for i in server1 server2;do ssh root@$i "DNSNAME=$(basename >> $(hostname)$);echo $DNSNAME";done > > You need to use single quotes instead of double quotes - see the rules > in the bash man page about quote expansion. A single quoted string is > not subject to any expansion by the shell on the client machine but a > double quoted string will be expanded on the client before the ssh > command is executed. > > $ ssh abox 'DNSNAME=$(basename $(hostname));echo $DNSNAME' > abox.example.com > > I still don't think that basename will do what you want here... > > Regards, > Bryn. Great that single quote worked. It's nwo returning the correct result. Many thanks. The basename command works well. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
