[mythtv-users] Another MythWeather question

James McElroy psiclopz at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 00:52:52 UTC 2005


Thanks, the echo $HOSTNAME gave me what I needed.  Now if I could just
figure out how to drop the font on the "Tomorrow's forecast" page....

James


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:28:29 -0500, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> a few places to look:
> "hostname" in [user at hostname ~]$ in bash prompt.
> or 'echo $HOSTNAME' (this is very useful)
> or 'grep 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts', this will give you all valid hostnames
> for your loopback address
> 
> James
> 
> Not sure what how it's being used in your instance, since I haven't
> messed with MythWeather, but in some instances it's useful to use the
> $HOSTNAME variable rather than use the actual hostname explicitly.
> That way if you ever change the hostname for what ever reason, you
> won't have to go through and manually edit settings in different
> places.
> 
> Again, not sure how it's being used here, so a shell variable may not work.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:28:49 +0000 (UTC),
> mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org <mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org>
> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:32:34 -0700
> > From: James McElroy <psiclopz at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Another MythWeather question
> > To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Message-ID: <411cd81b05032906322c659aec at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > well this is probably a silly question, but I'm new to Linux, so I'll
> > ask it anyway.  For my localhost information I just put "localhost"
> > because in my general setup for myth it had the "Host name" as
> > localhost.  Is there somewhere else I should look to determine if this
> > should be a different value?
> >
> > I also feel like the font is too large, but I haven't found a way to
> > shrink it, has anyone else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > James
> >
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