redhat man page for sys::hostname

Sys::Hostname(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					Sys::Hostname(3pm)

NAME
       Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

SYNOPSIS
	   use Sys::Hostname;
	   $host = hostname;

DESCRIPTION
       Attempts several methods of getting the system hostname and then caches the result.  It tries the first available of the C library's geth-
       ostname(), `$Config{aphostname}`, uname(2), "syscall(SYS_gethostname)", `hostname`, `uname -n`, and the file /com/host.	If all that fails
       it "croak"s.

       All NULs, returns, and newlines are removed from the result.

AUTHOR
       David Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>

       Texas Instruments

       XS code added by Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

perl v5.8.0							    2002-06-01							Sys::Hostname(3pm)