MirBSD manpage: hostname(1)

HOSTNAME(1)                  BSD Reference 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 superuser
     can set the host name by supplying a /etc/myname file. This is used at
     system boot time by netstart(8) to initialise the hostname.

     The options are as follows:

     -f      Returns what the DNS resolver thinks the hostname canonicalises
             to. This is usually the "official host name" of the first line in
             /etc/hosts whose official host name or alias matches the name of
             the current host, but can also be retrieved from DNS.

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

FILES

     /etc/hosts   The host name database.
     /etc/myname  Configuration file containing the fully qualified host name
                  (FQDN), to be set at system boot time.

SEE ALSO

     getaddrinfo(3), gethostname(3), sethostname(3), hosts(5), myname(5),
     hostname(7), netstart(8)

HISTORY

     The hostname utility appeared in 4.2BSD. The -f option appeared in
     MirBSD #11, inspired by the GNU version of hostname.

MirBSD #10-current             January 24, 2021                              1