[WHEREAMI] Get current Location w/o running Tests

[Andrew McMillan]

Hi Lars,

The current locations are listed in /var/lib/whereami/iam so you can
just cat that file.

I sometimes use this for scripts that depend on knowing what the current
location is.

Glad you like the software.  Sorry to take so long to respond, but it's
been conferences and holidays for a couple of weeks.

Cheers,
					Andrew.


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 01:36 +0100, Lars Feyerabend wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> First of all: After having had a hard time configuring whereami to fit
> my needs, I must admit that I now *love* whereami. :)
> Thanks, Andrew, for this fine piece of software.
> 
> Anyway, here's my question: To print out the current location (among
> other stuff) on a desktop widget, I'd like to just get the current
> location, but for obvious reasons without having to run whereami's
> detection tests each time.
> 
> Unfortunately I found such option neither in the manpage, nor on the net
> (Google, usenet, archive of this mailing list).
> 
> Is it possible to read out some file or environment variable to get the
> last detected location?
> 
> My current workaround is to add a line like
> 
>   +somenet echo "somenet" > /home/pulsar/.whereami-location
> 
> to every network section in whereami.conf, but I'd rather avoid
> reinventing the wheel. :)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> Lars

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