my $machine = $ENV{HOSTNAME};
martin
Mark Johnson wrote:
> Is there another way to get access to the environment variables... this
> works, but it seems kind of kludgy..
>
> my $machine = `echo \$HOSTNAME`;
>
> Also, is there a way to detemine whether the script is being executed by
> root?
>
> I tired doing:
>
> my $is_root = `echo \$UID`
>
> but for some reason this doesn't work, but it works in a bash script...it
> appears that $UID isn't available or something...
>
> thanks!
>
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