On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote:
> > From: bill lam
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Sherlock Ric wrote:
> > >
> > > The nicest cross-platform method to finding a computer's hostname
> > that I know is:
> > >
> > > CRLF -.~ shell 'hostname' [ require 'task'
> >
> > In that case, I prefer 2!:5 IFUNIX{::'COMPUTERNAME';'HOSTNAME'
> >
>
> The trouble is that it doesn't work for me on Linux (Ubuntu)! Does my method
> work on your flavour?
the hostname for debian (also likely ubuntu) is stored in the /etc/hostname
what will be the outout of
cat /etc/hostname
if there is no such file or its content is empty, try
sudo -e /etc/hostname
and write the hostname of your choice.
Your method need to shell an external program to do what can be done
by J native command. over-skilled ;-)
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