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Re: fixing Sys::Hostname

From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
February 8, 2000 05:54
Subject:
Re: fixing Sys::Hostname
Message ID:
29802.950018063@chthon
>  ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');

>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
>so that trick is not portable.

    % grep localhost /etc/hosts
    127.0.0.1	localhost	

--tom

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