Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:57:51 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <20030309235751.B53727@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <1047268134.3e6c0b263d124@ra.dweebsoft.com>; from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com on Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:48:54PM -0800 References: <1047268134.3e6c0b263d124@ra.dweebsoft.com>
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:48:54PM -0800, Daxbert wrote:
> Quoting David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>:
>
> > I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to
> > tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> > varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0
> >
> > Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?
> >
>
> DISPLAY=`who -m | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/[(|)]//g'`:0.0
Nope. That give the IP of the server to the outside world;
What who gives me is the name of the machine, but that seems to work;
CHANTELLE:0.0
I guess becuase it looks it up in /etc/hosts
thanks -
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