In article <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408171053120.10426@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in> you wrote: > You can use 'uname' sytem call. See man page of uname(2). This should help. uname does not return the FQDN in all cases. You need to uname and gethostbyname in combination. I would suggest to copy it from the hostname utility which is in the net-tools package. This tool is used on all distributions. It does not catch all missconfigurations (i.e. localhost as FQDN), but if an user has this error, it will affect other programs, too. > hostname -fv gethostname()=`calista' Resolving `calista' ... Result: h_name=`calista.inka.de' Result: h_aliases=`calista' Result: h_aliases=`calista.eckenfels.net' Result: h_aliases=`eckenfels.net' Result: h_aliases=`web.eckenfels.net' Result: h_aliases=`secure.eckenfels.net' Result: h_addr_list=`10.0.0.3' calista.inka.de Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
