NAME
hostname —
set or print name of current
host system
SYNOPSIS
hostname |
[-s]
[name-of-host] |
DESCRIPTION
hostname prints the name of the current host. The super-user
can set the host name by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the
network initialization script
/etc/rc.d/network, normally
run at boot time.
Options:
-
-
- -s
- Trims off any domain information from the printed
name.
SEE ALSO
domainname(1),
gethostname(3),
sethostname(3)
HISTORY
The
hostname utility appeared in
4.2BSD.