bug#21281: 25.0.50.1 (getenv "HOSTNAME") fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 17.08.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> > (getenv "HOSTNAME") returns nil at
> Which means that the parent process did not export this variable to
> Emacs.  Why do you think this is a bug?
>
> Andreas.

Writing

export HOSTNAME

into .bashrc and restart solved it.

Remains the question why this isn't needed w/ the bunch of other env's