HOSTNAME(1) BSD Reference Manual HOSTNAME(1)NAME
hostname - set or print name of current host system
SYNOPSIS
hostname [-s] [name-of-host]
DESCRIPTION
The hostname utility prints the name of the current host. The superuser
can set the host name by supplying a /etc/myname file. This is used at
system boot time by netstart(8) to initialize the hostname.
The options are as follows:
-s Trims off any domain information from the printed name.
SEE ALSOdomainname(1), gethostname(3), sethostname(3), myname(5), hostname(7),
netstart(8)HISTORY
The hostname utility appeared in 4.2BSD.
MirOS BSD #10-current April 28, 1995 1