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SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8) systemd-hostnamed.service SYSTEMD-HOSTNAMED.SERVICE(8)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

systemd-hostnamed.service
/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
systemd 215