HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Matt Perry
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

Re: HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* 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