systemd-hostnamed.service

systemd-hostnamed.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed

systemd-hostnamed is a system service that may be used as mechanism to change the system 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.

1.

developer documentation

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

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