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. BSD December 7, 2006 BSD