- About hostname : To show or set the system’s host name
- It comes from “net-tools-1.60” package.
- Configuration Files:
/etc/hosts –
/etc/sysconfig/network –
Examples:
1. To print the hostname of the system
| $ hostname |
2. To display the alias host name of the system
| $ hostname -a $ hostname –alias |
3. To display the name of DNS domain
| $ hostname -d $ hostname –domain |
4. To read the hostname from the file
| $ hostname -F hostfile.txt $ hostname –file hostfile.txt |
5. To display the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
| $ hostname -f $ hostname –fqdn $ hostname –long |
6. To display the IP address of the host
| $ hostname -i $ hostname –ip-address |
7. To display the short hostname
| $ hostname -s $ hostname –short |
8. To get the version of the hostname command
| $ hostname -V $ hostname –version |
9. To have the verbose output
| $ hostname –verbose |
10. To display the NIS domain name
| $ hostname -y $ hostname –yp $ hostname –nis |
11. To get the help for hostname command
| $ hostname –help |
