Hey Bill,
You can do a "hostname -i" from the command line.
ex:
optimus:/home/tuan>hostname -i
128.29.222.189
Hope this helps. Mine was more from within a C/C++ program.
Tuan
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bill Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Tuan Hoang wrote:
>
> > What is the best way to get the ip address from
> > a device, such as ppp0, ppp1, eth0, eth1, etc...?
> >
> > Are there a few ways? Easiest? Pro's & Con's?
>
> I'm trying to do the same thing. What I want to do, is in a shell script
> that I'll eventually add to /etc/rc.d/init.d is to get the IP address of
> the local machine. Now, of course the machine can have multiple
> interfaces, so just looking at the output of ifconfig doesn't help a lot.
>
> What I want to do is look up the name of the machine, then look in
> /etc/hosts for the corresponding IP address.
>
> There really should be standard function in /etc/rc.d/init.d or
> something similar.
>
> Bill
>
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