Re: Anyone Know How to Make uname -n Return Non-FQDN?

Eric Robinson :
Normally, uname -n returns myhost.mydomain.com. I need it to return just
myhost. Anybody know how to do that? I have CentOS 4.3 (which is RHEL4).

Oddness.

Wed Aug 30 09:33:36 ~> uname -n
jason
Wed Aug 30 09:33:38 ~>


From the man page:

-n, --nodename
print the network node hostname

So above, uname -n prints the machines name, as advertised. Perhaps your
manpage is different.

At any rate:

uname -n | cut -d. -f1

should do the trick.

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