* how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
@ 2002-07-17 10:31 Ralf Hauser
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From: Ralf Hauser @ 2002-07-17 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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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* RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
@ 2002-07-17 11:08 Vince Hoffman
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From: Vince Hoffman @ 2002-07-17 11:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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* RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
@ 2002-07-17 11:33 Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
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From: Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG @ 2002-07-17 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
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?
@ 2002-07-17 12:03 Robinow, David
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From: Robinow, David @ 2002-07-17 12:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
> 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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