Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:28:55 -0500 (EST) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown" |
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, David wrote:
# On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote: # > btw, domainname on my machine returns nothing. where does uname(2) get the # > domain name from? # # i'm betting it uses what is in /proc/sys/kernel/hostname. # # note the other files in there.
And note that on Redhat boxes (5.1,5.2 at least) domainname is empty, and hostname contains the fully qualified name :-/
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