> Do you want me to file a bug? If so Red Hat or Duke's bugzilla?? file one at dukes - it sends me nagmails :) Thanks. > Thanks for the quick response and workaround but AFAICS it is not quite > the same. In my case I have variables that get set at login to different > values depending on the machine hostname and OS it is running. > The idea is to be able to use the same config files in yum for all of the > machines on my net. I currently build 4 versions of yum (FC4, FC5, el3, el4) > but use the same support scripts across all 4 versions. > > I do things like the following at login time which sets up an alias with the > correct options: > export releasever=`perl -ne 'm/.* release (\S+)/; print $1;' \ > < /etc/redhat-release` > or > export DIST=`perl -ane '$_ = $F[2]; s/release/FC/; s/Linux/RHL/; \ > s/Enterprise/RHEL/; print;' </etc/redhat-release` > > Is there a better way?? > What are you trying to do with this alias for login? What does it buy you? Why not just have the url you put in the config file be a cgi that hands back the right thing based on the requesting machine? Or why not just have the url be built up in your login script? -sv
