1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1988, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 13.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 14.\" without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)hostname.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd April 28, 1995 32.Dt HOSTNAME 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm hostname 36.Nd set or print name of current host system 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl s 40.Op Ar name-of-host 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44utility prints the name of the current host. The super-user can 45set the hostname by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the 46network initialization script 47.Pa /etc/rc.network , 48normally run at boot 49time. 50This script uses the 51.Va hostname 52variable in 53.Pa /etc/rc.conf . 54.Pp 55Options: 56.Bl -tag -width flag 57.It Fl s 58Trim off any domain information from the printed 59name. 60.El 61.Sh SEE ALSO 62.Xr gethostname 3 , 63.Xr rc.conf 5 64.Sh HISTORY 65The 66.Nm 67command appeared in 68.Bx 4.2 . 69