SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)stemd-hostnamed.serviceTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)
systemd-hostnamed.service, systemd-hostnamed - Host name bus
mechanism
systemd-hostnamed.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed
systemd-hostnamed is a system service that may be used as a mechanism
to change the system's hostname. systemd-hostnamed is automatically
activated on request and terminates itself when it is unused.
The tool hostnamectl(1) is a command line client to this service.
See the developer documentation[1] for information about the APIs
systemd-hostnamed provides.
systemd(1), hostname(5), machine-info(5), hostnamectl(1),
sethostname(2)
1. developer documentation
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed
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Pages that refer to this page: hostnamectl(1), hostname(5), machine-info(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)