From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26795 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2002 17:19:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26784 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2002 17:19:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wilber.adroit.com) (192.232.25.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 17:19:15 -0000 Received: by wilber.adroit.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <36PD9SB3>; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:19:13 -0400 Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B2260@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:03:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01401.txt.bz2 > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/