Re: : Openbox autostart - detecting hostname

On 12 August 2014 02:41, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:17:28PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> > I'm using openbox on an Acer Chromebook (full install, not crouton).
 I'm
> > pretty pleased with the hardware, but I've got a problem with Openbox's
> > autostart file.  It's a shell script, so I should be able to make
decisions
> > about what to run based on the hostname.  This matters because I share
> > configuration files and dotfiles across multiple hosts.  But it doesn't
> > work.  I've tried:
> >
> > if [ "$(hostname)" == "crom" ] # works at the command line
> > then
> >     xterm -fn terminus-18 &
> > fi
> >
> > if [ "${HOSTNAME}" == "crom" ] # ditto
> > ...
> >
> > if [ "$(cat /etc/hostname)" == "crom" ] # ditto
> > ...
> >
> > None work in ~/.config/openbox/autostart .  I dumped $(env) to a file
from
> > within the autostart and HOSTNAME isn't set, so that explains the middle
> > one failing, but I have no explanation for why the others don't work.
 Can
> > anyone help?
>
> Try single '=', or use Bash/Ksh which support '=='.

Thanks Walter - I do have the file.

William - that's a very good point: I was automatically assuming Bash
because it's what I use all the time, and that may well NOT be what's used
by Openbox.  It obviously uses a shell of some sort, but which one is open
to question.  I will confirm later.  Thanks!

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Giles
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