> > As I indicated previously, /etc/profile is where your users' environment > > variable $HOSTNAME originates during the login process. It is only > > coincidental that Charles used $HOSTNAME in network.conf. Notice, > > multicron-* never sources /etc/network.conf, which means that it has > > *no* idea what is or isn't in that file . . . > > I wonder what user multicron-p runs under since whoami prints nothing when > run by that process? I'm not familair with the concept of sourcing scripts, > I'll look into that. Thanks for helping an LRP scripting rookie understand > this stuff.
That's because whoami is a POSIXness shell-script that simply echos the value of the $USER environment variable. Since this isn't setup properly when being run by cron, you don't get any output :( > Sounds like I shouldn't worry about $HOSTNAME not working in multicron-p. > Doesn't mean something fundamental is broken which is what I was trying to > discern with all of my daft questions. This is correct...nothing fundamental is broken, and none of the laws of physics have been altered. Either the ping-check stuff never worked, or in updating other parts of the distribution (especially busybox) this functionality was broken and not noticed until now. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
