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DOMAINNAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					     DOMAINNAME(1)

NAME
domainname -- set or print YP domain of current host system SYNOPSIS
domainname [name-of-domain] DESCRIPTION
domainname prints the YP domain name of the current host. The super-user can set the domain name by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the network initialization script /etc/rc.d/network, normally run at boot time. SEE ALSO
hostname(1), getdomainname(3), setdomainname(3) HISTORY
The domainname utility is derived from the hostname utility, which appeared in 4.2BSD. The domainname utility appeared in NetBSD 0.8. BSD
May 31, 1993 BSD

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domainname(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     domainname(8)

NAME
domainname - set or display name of current domain nisdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain ypdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain SYNOPSYS
domainname [ domain ] nisdomainname [ domain ] ypdomainname [ domain ] DESCRIPTION
Without an argument, domainname displays the name of the current NIS domainname of the system. domainname uses the getdomainname(2) function for getting the domainname, nisdomainname and ypdomainname are using yp_get_default_domain(3). Only the super-user can set the name of the domain by specifying the new domain as an argument. All three programs uses setdomainname(2) for this. Bear in mind, that already running programs may continue to use the old domainname. SEE ALSO
getdomainname(2), setdomainname(2), yp_get_default_domain(3), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypwhich(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), yset(8) AUTHOR
domainname is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>. YP Tools 2.9 May 1999 domainname(8)
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