On Tue, 30 May 2000, Honza Pazdziora wrote:
> 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.
Like Honza said, but there is no problem with forking at the startup, this
is not the fork during the request processing.
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