[Gllug] $HOSTNAME

John G Walker johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 8 17:47:40 UTC 2009



On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:05:24 +0100 Peter Cannon
<peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> John G Walker 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),
> > 
> 
> /etc/HOSTNAME
> 

That what I thought (see above) but it isn't. It's using a different
value to the one on etc/HOSTNAME,

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 John
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