RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?

RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?

[Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG]

Vince Hoggman wrote:
"E.g. the website <http://cygwin.com/> doesn't appear to have a search
function for this purpose." 

Fortunately, there is google.  I searched on 

cygwin package list

and the very first hit was the Cygwin package list...

Seriously, google is my first stop when I need Cygwin information. (usually
on something I fouled up)

Wayne Keen

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RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?

[Robinow, David]

> From: Ralf Hauser [mailto:ralfhauser@gmx.ch]
> Subject: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
> 
> Apparently, a man page for hostid.1 already exists since 2001.
> My questions therefore are:
> 1) Is the corresponding command available within cygwin? If 
> so, in which
> part?
  No.
> 2) How can I find out whether some tools/commands are available under
> cygwin in a deterministic way without downloading and installing
> everything? E.g. the website http://cygwin.com/ doesn't 
> appear to have a search function for this purpose.
 I'm surprised by this last statement.  The link to "find a package or file
in the cygwin release" is rather prominently displayed at http://cygwin.com.
How did you miss this?
  The link sends you to http://cygwin.com/packages/ which lets you query.
You should then find that hostid.c exists in the sh-utils packages.  It's
not immediately clear why there's no hostid.exe.
 The answer is that configure flunks the test for "gethostid" and thus
doesn't build it.  I have no idea if there's a reason why "gethostid" is not
implemented.  If this interests you, you might search the mailing list
archives.

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RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?

[Vince Hoffman]

try http://cygwin.com/packages/

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Hauser [mailto:ralfhauser@gmx.ch]
Sent: 17 July 2002 17:04
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?


Hi,

Apparently, a man page for hostid.1 already exists since 2001.
My questions therefore are:
1) Is the corresponding command available within cygwin? If so, in which
part?
2) How can I find out whether some tools/commands are available under
cygwin in a deterministic way without downloading and installing
everything? E.g. the website http://cygwin.com/ doesn't appear to have a
search function for this purpose.

Any hints would be highly appreciated!

Rgds r.


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how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?

[Ralf Hauser]

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Hi,

Apparently, a man page for hostid.1 already exists since 2001.
My questions therefore are:
1) Is the corresponding command available within cygwin? If so, in which
part?
2) How can I find out whether some tools/commands are available under
cygwin in a deterministic way without downloading and installing
everything? E.g. the website http://cygwin.com/ doesn't appear to have a
search function for this purpose.

Any hints would be highly appreciated!

Rgds r.


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