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Package: hostname

Description: utility to set/show the host name or domain name
This package provides commands which can be used to display the system's DNS name, and to display or set its hostname or NIS domain name.
copyright | changelog

Manual pages:

dnsdomainname(1) domainname(1) hostname(1)
nisdomainname(1) ypdomainname(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/hostname

Manual page search:

freehostent(3) gethostname(2) getipnodebyaddr(3)
getipnodebyname(3) hostname(1) hostname(5)
hostname(7) hostnamectl(1) hosts(5)
libnss_myhostname.so.2(8) logresolve(1) nss-myhostname(8)
org.freedesktop.hostname1(5) sethostname(2) ssh-argv0(1)
systemd-hostnamed(8) systemd-hostnamed.service(8)

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