Bug#163837: startx: hostname version is displayed

[bbolli@ymail.ch (Beat Bolli)]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:46:40PM -0300, John Lenton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:57:06PM +0200, Beat Bolli wrote:
> > 
> > When starting X, the hostname version string is displayed. This comes from
> > the Xauth setup in startx. The Debian version of hostname outputs its version
> > string to stderr. The following patch suppresses this error:
> > 
> > --- startx.orig	2002-10-04 22:49:05.000000000 +0200
> > +++ startx	2002-10-08 20:27:31.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
> >  # set up default Xauth info for this machine
> >  case `uname` in
> >  Linux*)
> > -	if [ -z "`hostname --version | grep GNU`" ]; then
> > +	if [ -z "`hostname --version 2>/dev/null | grep GNU`" ]; then
> 
> actually no, what happens is that it outputs its version to
> STDERR and nothing at all to STDOUT, so the right thing (apart
> from fixing hostname, which would be better IMHO) would be to do
> 
>     hostname --version 2>&1 | grep GNU
> 
> else stdin will be empty and it'll never grep.

Well, the question is if Debian has the GNU hostname command. Since the grep
doesn't match, I deduced that I don't have GNU hostname, based on the
assumption that the person who coded this knew that GNU hostname would
output its version string on stdout...

Beat Bolli

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