hostname man page on OpenBSD

hostname man page on OpenBSD

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HOSTNAME(1)		   OpenBSD Reference Manual		   HOSTNAME(1)

NAME
     hostname - set or print name of current host system

SYNOPSIS
     hostname [-s] [name-of-host]

DESCRIPTION
     The hostname utility is used to set or print the name of the current
     host.  If no argument is given, the name of the current host is printed.

     The host name can be set by the superuser either by specifying
     name-of-host, or by supplying a myname(5) file, which 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 ALSO
     domainname(1), gethostname(3), myname(5), hostname(7), netstart(8)

HISTORY
     The hostname utility appeared in 4.2BSD.

OpenBSD 4.9		       January 24, 2011			   OpenBSD 4.9

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