(RADIATOR) Three small(?) feature requests

[James FitzGibbon]

A better approach for getting the FQDN in perl is to use
Net::Domain::hostfqdn().  It's a core module.

[hades:jfitz] (81) > perl -MNet::Domain=hostfqdn -e 'print hostfqdn()."\n"'
hades.pvt.primus.ca
[hades:jfitz] (82) > 

This works for me on RedHat 7-EL4 and Solaris 8-10 consistently, including
situations where Sys::Hostname was inconsistent from one platform to the
next.

According to Module::Corelist, it was first made a core mod during the 5.7.x
devel cycle, so 5.8.0 and up are guaranteed to have it:

Net::Domain  was first released with perl 5.007003
  5.007003   2.17
  5.008      2.17
  5.008001   2.18
  5.008002   2.19
  5.008003   2.19
  5.008004   2.19
  5.008005   2.19
  5.008006   2.19
  5.009      2.19
  5.009001   2.19
  5.009002   2.19

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au] On
Behalf Of Jethro R Binks
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:06 AM
To: radiator at open.com.au
Subject: RE: (RADIATOR) Three small(?) feature requests

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Ingvar Berg (LI/EAB) wrote:

> Maybe you could resolve this simple/FQDN problem by do a split on '.'
> and just keep the first part. I think that could be a good standard
> behaviour.

I don't actually care about the FQDN to be honest (and I suspect few 
people would be); what I do care about is consistency of behaviour.  So if 
it always returned the simple hostname, regardless, I would be happy with 
that.  It would be a backwardly incompatible change though, of course, at 
least for FreeBSD users.

J.


> 
> /Ingvar
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > > Thats quite difficult: we are at the mercy of 
> > Sys::Hostname there, 
> > > > and Im not convinced there is a better more complete way, that is 
> > > > universallly available :-( See man Sys::Hostname for more 
> > details on 
> > > > how the hostname is determined: you may be able to change 
> > the config 
> > > > of your host to get a better answer.
> > >
> 
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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