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Re: ubuntu 10.04 (getenv "HOSTNAME") does not work.


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: ubuntu 10.04 (getenv "HOSTNAME") does not work.
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:26:40 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

mafeusek@gmail.com writes:

> Hallo Group Members.
>
> (getenv "HOSTNAME") returns nil,
> while 
>
> bash$ echo $HOSTNAME
>
> returns host name.
>
> weird!? :)
>
> have You got an idea why??

man bash

[...]
        HOSTNAME
                Automatically set to the name of the current host.
[...]

It is not exported by default.


-- 
David Kastrup


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