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