On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Kees Vonk 7249 24549 wrote:
> I have a question about perl sections, I have the need to 
> build a httpd.conf file that can be run on more than one 
> server, this means that I need to determine what the server 
> name is (for the ServerName directive), I think I can do this 
> by putting:
> 
> <Perl>
>    $ServerName = `uname -n`;
> </Perl>
> 
> but is it wise to put backticks in a Perl section (as 
> backticks cause a fork) or is there an all perl solution for 

Module Sys::Hostname tries to get the name by a syscall before
reverting to uname -n. You might want to give it a try.

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