Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

[darren chamberlain]

Scott Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 
04/27/2001:
> Should this work in a startup.pl file
> 
> my $hostname = $ENV{"HOSTNAME"} ;
> 
> from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct 
> hostname of the server. 
> 
> But from within startup.pl I don't get it.
> 
> Scott

use Sys::Hostname;
$host = hostname;

(darren)

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Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Philip Mak wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Scott Alexander wrote:
> 
> > Should this work in a startup.pl file
> >
> > my $hostname = $ENV{"HOSTNAME"} ;
> > from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct hostname of the 
>server.
> > But from within startup.pl I don't get it.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> my $hostname = `/bin/hostname`;

Or better still:

http://perl.apache.org/guide

73,
Ged.

Re: Environment variables in startup.pl

[Philip Mak]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Scott Alexander wrote:

> Should this work in a startup.pl file
>
> my $hostname = $ENV{"HOSTNAME"} ;
>
> from the prompt I can write echo $HOSTNAME and get the correct
> hostname of the server.
>
> But from within startup.pl I don't get it.

The reason "echo $HOSTNAME" works from the prompt is because /etc/profile
contains the command HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`. When you're in a
non-interactive environment, that's not available.

Try this:

my $hostname = `/bin/hostname`;

-Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])