Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> But there is `hostname` and `hostname --fqdn`, both of which are well-defined
>> independent of a connection.
> But they aren't guaranteed to return anything useful, and IME often don't.
I think "well defined" is stretching it anyway. I see different
behaviors (partially or fully qualified hostname) on my different Unix
machines. --fqdn appears particularly useless, as Fedora 10 reports
this:
$ hostname --fqdn
localhost.localdomain
and my other machines don't recognize the switch at all.
regards, tom lane
