(RADIATOR) Three small(?) feature requests

[Mike McCauley]

Hello James,

Thanks for the suggestion.
Since there are many people still using Radiator with perl 5.6.1 on Windows at 
least, I dont think it would be practical to introduce a mandatory dependency 
on it.

Cheers.

On Friday 25 November 2005 02:25, 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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> Computing Officer, IT Services
> University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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