non-GNU systems: serious bug in SA3 dependency

[Julian Field]

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At 23:39 04/09/2004, you wrote:
>On Sep 4, 2004, at 8:16 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>>To find the fully-qualified hostname with the domain attached (ie the
>>FQDN), it executes the command
>>        hostname --fqdn
>>
>>This will, on Solaris systems at least, set the hostname to the name
>>"--fqdn" which probably isn't what your server is called. If you try
>>this,
>>change your hostname back *real* fast or all sorts of ugly shit will
>>happen.
>
>Oh, OUCH!  Thank you for finding and reporting it.  That's just
>insidious.  And it so violates the idea that Perl and its modules
>should be portable.
>
>Speaking of which ... did you report this bug to that author?  If you
>didn't, and you don't have time to follow up with them and such, just
>say so.  I'll take this one on if you want to hand it off to someone.

If you could take this up and pursue it, that would really help. Thankyou!
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