domainname (8)

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Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001 Thorsten Kukuk
This file is part of the yp-tools.
Author: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/domainname.8".)

NAME

domainname - set or display name of current domain
nisdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain
ypdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain

SYNOPSYS

domainname [ domain ]
nisdomainname [ domain ]
ypdomainname [ domain ]

DESCRIPTION

Without an argument, domainname displays the name of the current NIS domainname of the system. domainname uses the getdomainname(2) function for getting the domainname, nisdomainname and ypdomainname are using yp_get_default_domain(3).

Only the super-user can set the name of the domain by specifying the new domain as an argument. All three programs uses setdomainname(2) for this. Bear in mind, that already running programs may continue to use the old domainname.

SEE ALSO

getdomainname(2), setdomainname(2), yp_get_default_domain(3), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypwhich(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), yset(8)

AUTHOR

domainname is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.