domainname - set or display name of current domain
nisdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain
ypdomainname - set or display name of current NIS(YP) domain
domainname [
domain ]
nisdomainname [
domain ]
ypdomainname [
domain ]
Without an argument,
domainname displays the name of the current NIS
domainname of the system.
domainname uses the
getdomainname(2)
function for getting the domainname,
nisdomainname and
ypdomainname are using
yp_get_default_domain(3).
Only the super-user can set the name of the domain by specifying the new
domain as an argument. All three programs uses
setdomainname(2)
for this. Bear in mind, that already running programs may continue to use the
old domainname.
getdomainname(2),
setdomainname(2),
yp_get_default_domain(3),
ypbind(8),
ypcat(1),
ypmatch(1),
ypwhich(1),
yppoll(8),
ypserv(8),
ypset(8)
domainname is part of the
yp-tools package, which was written by
Thorsten Kukuk <
[email protected]>.