[Gllug] $HOSTNAME

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM, John G
Walker<johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I think I'm going off my head.
>
> Where is the $HOSTNAME variable set in OpenSUSE 10.1, using KDE3?
> Surely it's set from etc/HOSTNAME? Except they're suddenly different.
>
> It's important because it's used in various scripts of mine (including
> the backup),

It's probably safer to use $(hostname -s)

S.

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