May 31, 1993 DOMAINNAME 1

### NAME

domainname - set or print YP domain of current host system

### SYNOPSIS

domainname [name-of-domain]

### DESCRIPTION

domainname prints the YP domain name of the current host. The super-user can set the domain name by supplying an argument; this is usually done in the network initialization script ```/etc/rc.d/network`, normally run at boot time.

### SEE ALSO

hostname(1), getdomainname(3), setdomainname(3)

### HISTORY

The domainname utility is derived from the hostname utility, which appeared in 4.2BSD. The domainname utility appeared in NetBSD0.8.