[ome-devel] Launching VisBio from the OME web interface

[Curtis Rueden]

Chris Allan wrote:

>On Linux we have the handy "hostname -f" however that doesn't exist on
>BSD systems, of which OS X's userland inherits so much from. As I recall
>there's a Perl module called Sys::FQDN or Sys::Hostname::FQDN, can't
>remember which, that does the lookup properly (ie. against the inet_*
>structures of a bound socket). I'll look at this a little closer later
>in the week.
>  
>

Well, I figured out why Tomasz's `hostname` was producing a blank server 
name. When digging through apache's error log just now, I came across this:

[Tue Apr 12 12:03:59 2005] null: Can't exec "hostname": No such file or 
directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/OME/Web/VisBio.pm line 67.

It seems odd that /bin isn't in perl's path, but with Ilya's change it's 
irrelevant now.

Also, "hostname -f" returns "localhost" on my machine. "dnsdomainname" 
returns nothing, and "dnsdomainname -f" also returns "localhost." I'm 
starting to feel like I must have installed "Debian: Defective Edition." :-)

-Curtis