Re: pmlogger_check.sh in 2.3.1-4

[Alan Hoyt <ahoyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken McDonell wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Alan Hoyt wrote:
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> > Line 64 was changed from LOCALHOSTNAME=`hostname` LOCALHOSTNAME=`hostname -s`
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> At that point we need the short form of the hostname, and on some
> systems hostname returns the fully qualified domain name, while hostname -s
> returns the short name.
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> > What was the logic behind this change?  

I haven’t tested it exhaustively but it seems to work correctly either 
way – with a fully qualified name or a short name. That's why the 
addition of the -s flag wasn't clear to me.


- Alan -