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regarding screen: support for FQDN in hardstatus string
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Package: screen
Version: 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7
Severity: wishlist
In hardstatus strings, one can use %H which will be replaces with the
hostname. However, even if the hostname is set to a FQDN, what screen
does is to display the node name only (all characters from left to right
in FQDN/hostname until first dot).
It would be nice if screen would allow displaying the 'full' FQDN in the
hardstatus string.
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tags 711886 + wontfix
thanks
Hi,
Thanks for the report.
I'm going to close this old wishlist feature request as wontfix, because
there's a reasonable enough workaround.
Example workaround in ~/.screenrc:
backtick 1 60 60 /bin/hostname -f
hardstatus string "%{=0;7}%1` %{=7;0}%H%{-}"
%1` shows the FQDN from hostname -f
If you want to pursue a native FQDN variable, please file a feature
request upstream:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=screen&func=additem
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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