[chuck-users] Std.setenv() question

[Joel Matthys]

Hmm, the same happens for me. Perhaps $HOSTNAME is null until polled, so 
it is generated upon request by the command line call?

One possible workaround is to set an env variable right before launching 
chuck, eg:

NETNAME="$HOSTNAME" chuck myfile.ck

and access Std.getenv("NETNAME") in your code.

I wasn't aware of setenv or getenv before. Did getenv("HOSTNAME") work 
in the past?

Joel

On 09/18/2015 08:53 PM, Scott Smallwood wrote:
>
> Hey Chuckians…
>
> Question for those who use Std.setenv().  I’m trying to resurrect some 
> old code of mine that made use of a special environment variable we 
> used to use in plork to identify machines over the network.  In short: 
>  this was a variable we called “NET_NAME”, in which we specified the 
> network name address (i.e. blah.local) on our local area wireless network.
>
> What I’m wondering is this:  in UNIX, there is usually a variable 
> already in existence called “HOSTNAME”.  For example, on my mac, when 
> I type “echo $HOSTNAME” in the terminal, it returns a string that 
> contains the name of my machine with .local appended to it.
>
> However, when I try to recall this variable using Std.setenv(), I get 
> nothing.
>
> Anyone have any ideas here?
>
> —ss
>
> [ - ] Scott Smallwood <http://www.scott-smallwood.com> - Associate 
> Professor - University of Alberta  [ - ]
>
>
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