systemd-hostnamed.service, systemd-hostnamed — Host name bus mechanism

Synopsis

systemd-hostnamed.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed

Description

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.

See Also

systemd(1), hostname(5), machine-info(5), hostnamectl(1), sethostname(2)

Notes

1.

developer documentation
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed

Referenced By

hostname(5), hostnamectl(1), machine-info(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7).

The man page systemd-hostnamed(8) is an alias of systemd-hostnamed.service(8).

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