(RADIATOR) Three small(?) feature requests

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello James -

Thanks for the suggestion - I have sent it on to Mike for consideration.

regards

Hugh


On 25 Nov 2005, at 03:25, James FitzGibbon wrote:

> 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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Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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