DOMAINNAME(1) General Commands Manual DOMAINNAME(1)

domainname — set or print YP domain of current host system

domainname [name-of-domain]

domainname prints the YP domain name of the current host. The super-user can set the domain name by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the network initialization script /etc/rc.d/network, normally run at boot time.

hostname(1), getdomainname(3), setdomainname(3)

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

May 31, 1993 NetBSD 11.0