complaint from 4.68.4 (now 4.68.5)

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 18 18:20:52 UTC 2008


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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Julian Field wrote:
> And BTW, shouldn't line 300 of CustomConfig.pm have backticks, eg:
>
>    300c300
>    <   $hostname2 = hostname;
>    ---
>    >   $hostname2 = `hostname`;
>
> to actually execute the hostname and assign it to the variable?
Just checked this. No, it shouldn't.
Read the comment just above it and you'll find to use it you need to 
uncomment a "use" line that provides the function "hostname", so it is 
perfectly valid code.

Jules

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