Re: long hostname question

albemuth <manunderstress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have an 8400 that has a hostname of more that is 9 chars. In 11i at
least, this is a no-no, but that's besided the point, as the box is in
production and i have to "deal with it."

11i which? 1.0 or 2.0?

Haven't noticed too many difficulties execpt I have the oracle folks
complaining that 'uname -n' gives the truncated hostname. I have told
them to use 'hostname' but it's some script they have the same on all
boxes. So, anyway to get uname -n to report the hostname?

I suspect not. And while I cannot really defend the current
limitations on the name returned by uname -n and anxiously await its
enhancement IMO, if the intent is to do things with TCP/IP networking
it is a _bug_ to use uname -n instead of hostname. The names are from
different "namespaces."

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