how to produce the name of a machine (env doesn't help)

[Donald]

I need to find the name of a machine programatically, but on hp-ux, there is no reference to it. Is there some secret hp method to get a machine to cough up it's name that doesn't use env?

 

[ChristopherD]

Donald -

Try the hostname command. This works in AIX, not sure about hp.

Christopher Devenny
c_devenny@yahoo.com

 

[MikeLacey]

If hostname doesn't work - try uname
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[Antistatic]

There is a brute force method. If the machines are networked and running 10.20, you could open the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. In netconf is the hostname and IP address of each machine in ascii text. At least in our network it is.

 

[ramirezfj]

just use COMPUTERNAME='uname -n'

 

[MikeLacey]

should be

COMPUTERNAME=`uname -n`

(those quotes are actually back-ticks)
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com