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removed dns_getname() which was already commented seems as if one can use dns_getip() or dns_getmx() instead without problem their code is almost identical to the one of dns_getname() anyway
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:08:29 +0200
parents 71dcdc2020bc
children 92b58989a09e
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#!/bin/sh
#
# try several ways to guess the hostname
# earlier output lines are probably better

(

# this is what Debian uses
cat /etc/mailname

# probably a good value on GNU/Linux
hostname -f

# this is often the short hostname
cat /etc/hostname

# often the short hostname, but widely available
hostname

# this file was mentioned on the Internet
cat /etc/HOSTNAME

) 2>/dev/null