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added a note to the long vs. int question in md5.h Solar Designer explained to me in privat conversation that the int had performed much better on some systems and that 16bit ints are very rare. Still I like using the long.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:53:04 +0200
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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 | uniq

exit 0