Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

2001-04-30 Thread darren chamberlain 

Scott Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 
04/27/2001:
 Should this work in a startup.pl file
 
 my $hostname = $ENV{HOSTNAME} ;
 
 from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct 
 hostname of the server. 
 
 But from within startup.pl I don't get it.
 
 Scott

use Sys::Hostname;
$host = hostname;

(darren)

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Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

2001-04-28 Thread G.W. Haywood 

Hi there,

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Philip Mak wrote:

 On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Scott Alexander wrote:
 
  Should this work in a startup.pl file
 
  my $hostname = $ENV{HOSTNAME} ;
  from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct hostname of the 
server.
  But from within startup.pl I don't get it.
 
 Try this:
 
 my $hostname = `/bin/hostname`;

Or better still:

http://perl.apache.org/guide

73,
Ged.

Environment variables in startup.pl

2001-04-27 Thread Scott Alexander 

Should this work in a startup.pl file

my $hostname = $ENV{HOSTNAME} ;

from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct 
hostname of the server. 

But from within startup.pl I don't get it.

Scott

Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

2001-04-27 Thread Philip Mak 

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Scott Alexander wrote:

 Should this work in a startup.pl file

 my $hostname = $ENV{HOSTNAME} ;

 from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct
 hostname of the server.

 But from within startup.pl I don't get it.

The reason echo $HOSTNAME works from the prompt is because /etc/profile
contains the command HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`. When you're in a
non-interactive environment, that's not available.

Try this:

my $hostname = `/bin/hostname`;

-Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])