use Sys::Hostname; $host = hostname();
Attempts several methods of getting the system hostname and then caches the result. It tries
syscall(SYS_gethostname)
,
`hostname`
,
`uname -n`
, and the file
/com/host
. If all that fails, it
croak()
s.
All nulls, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.
7.2.61 Symbol - Generate Anonymous Globs; Qualify Variable Names | 7.2.63 Sys::Syslog - Perl Interface to UNIX syslog(3) Calls |