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.