freebsd man page for hostname

HOSTNAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       HOSTNAME(1)

NAME
     hostname -- set or print name of current host system

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

DESCRIPTION
     The hostname utility prints the name of the current host.	The super-user can set the hostname by supplying an argument; this is usually done
     in the initialization script /etc/rc.d/hostname, normally run at boot time.  This script uses the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf.

     Options:

     -f    Include domain information in the printed name.  This is the default behavior.

     -s    Trim off any domain information from the printed name.

SEE ALSO
     gethostname(3), rc.conf(5)

HISTORY
     The hostname command appeared in 4.2BSD.

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								 December 7, 2006							       BSD