Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, don't get me wrong...I hate windows registries just as badly as > anyone else, and I've been using linuxconf on and off for ages. But > this has one darn good idea to it: many programs using the same data > source. For instance, I just installed this machine with one hostname > before realizing that alas, I could not get that hostname! It was a > royal pain to find all occurances of that hostname and change them all.
So? There's already a system call to give you the hostname. Which is to say: a good idea is only a good idea unless you're willing to do the hard work of actually making it work properly. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]