From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set
the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local
aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working.
$ cat hostalias
deb ftp.debian.org
$ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias
$ ftp deb
ftp: deb: Name or
* Matt Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041230 01:30]:
From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set
the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local
aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working.
$ cat hostalias
deb ftp.debian.org
$ export
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