DOMAINNAME(1) - General Commands Manual #

DOMAINNAME(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

domainname - set or print YP domain of current host system

SYNOPSIS #

domainname [name-of-domain]

DESCRIPTION #

The domainname utility prints the YP domain name of the current host. The superuser can set the domain name by supplying a /etc/defaultdomain file (see defaultdomain(5)). This is used at system boot time by rc(8) to initialize the domainname.

SEE ALSO #

hostname(1), getdomainname(3), setdomainname(3), defaultdomain(5), rc(8), yp(8)

HISTORY #

The domainname utility is derived from the hostname(1) utility, which appeared in 4.2BSD. The domainname utility appeared in NetBSD 0.8.

OpenBSD 7.5 - May 27, 2012