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1)      Does HP/UX have a command that will return the name of the
local host?

2)      Is there some portable construct to determine a local host
name?  If not, then does someone have a script they could share that
is "guaranteed" to return the local hostname by determining which
system is being used and then executing the appropriate command for
that system?

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> Sorry to bother people with such a basic question, but I am telnetting
> to an HP/UX host and am without manuals.  Two questions around the
> hostname command:
> 1) Does HP/UX have a command that will return the name of the
> local host?

dopey% hostname
dopey

You must have an older version of HP-UX.

John
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Try hostname or uname -n

They work at least at my machine an elderly 9000/840 with HP-UX 7.xx.

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: > Sorry to bother people with such a basic question, but I am telnetting
: > to an HP/UX host and am without manuals.  Two questions around the
: > hostname command:

: > 1)       Does HP/UX have a command that will return the name of the
: > local host?

: I tried 'hostname' on an HP Series 700 and it worked:

: dopey% hostname
: dopey

My system at B.08.00 supports hostname.  But you might try "/bin/uname -n"
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machine.mitre.org      as an example

        Phil

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> Another alternative is /bin/nodename, which gives the internet style address
> of the machine.

> machine.mitre.org      as an example

A word of caution ....  the  /bin/nodename  command is part of an old,
HP-proprietary NS package.  The string it gives back is not derived
from any entries in  /etc/hosts  or from any BIND server.  This string
is entered into the networking tables for NS at boot time.

The preferred method would be either the hostname or uname command.

Chuck.

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