uname ?

[Kathryn Lybarger]

Is it possible to make uname under HP-UX
show the fully qualified nodename of the
machine? I have set the hostname to the
long one, but uname still returns the short
one.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Rick Garland]

uname does not return the FQDN. Might want to look at nslookup. This will return the FQDN if it is defined in the hosts file or in the DNS tables. Look at how nsswitch.conf is setup.

[Bill Hassell]

You can set the uname value to FQDN but it might break some applications (typical tools and utilities) that are not expecting .com type names.