> Here's the question: Is this the most natural unix/linux way to connect such > internal and external names?
For code running in the same process context, that's doable. If you need multiple processes not necessarily derived from the same parent process to access that data, you need to use a configuration file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/