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 for information about the APIs systemd-hostnamed provides.

See Also¶

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