NAME

nodename - the machine's name

SYNOPSIS

/etc/nodename

DESCRIPTION

/etc/nodename holds the machine's name on its one line: letters, digits and -. At boot, /etc/sysinit gives it to the system, and uname -n then prints it.

The file is written when the system is installed, by ifup(1M) when a line of /etc/inet/interfaces says name host, and by the DHCP client's hook when that file says hostname dhcp and the server gives a name. Each of these also changes the running name at once (uname -S). To rename the machine by hand, write the new name here (and in this host's line of /etc/inet/hosts); it applies at the next boot, or at once with uname -S name.

An update of the base package keeps the file as it is.

FILES

/etc/nodename

this file.

SEE ALSO

ifup(1M), interfaces(4), uname(1)