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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | HISTORY | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
HOSTNAME(5) hostname HOSTNAME(5)
hostname - Local hostname configuration file
/etc/hostname
The /etc/hostname file configures the name of the local system that
is set during boot using the sethostname(2) system call. It should
contain a single newline-terminated hostname string. Comments (lines
starting with a `#') are ignored. The hostname may be a free-form
string up to 64 characters in length; however, it is recommended that
it consists only of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces
or dots, and limits itself to the format allowed for DNS domain name
labels, even though this is not a strict requirement.
You may use hostnamectl(1) to change the value of this file during
runtime from the command line. Use systemd-firstboot(1) to initialize
it on mounted (but not booted) system images.
The simple configuration file format of /etc/hostname originates from
Debian GNU/Linux.
systemd(1), sethostname(2), hostname(1), hostname(7), machine-id(5),
machine-info(5), hostnamectl(1), systemd-hostnamed.service(8),
systemd-firstboot(1)
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Pages that refer to this page: hostnamectl(1), systemd-firstboot(1), machine-id(5), machine-info(5), os-release(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-hostnamed.service(8)