MYNAME(5) BSD Reference Manual MYNAME(5)NAMEmyname - default hostname
SYNOPSIS
/etc/myname
DESCRIPTION
The myname file is read by netstart(8) at system startup time.
/etc/myname contains the symbolic name of the host machine. The file
should contain a single line specifying the fully qualified domain name
(FQDN) of the system (e.g. host.example.com). The name must be resolv-
able, either by matching a hostname specified in /etc/hosts (see
hosts(5)) or through DNS (see resolv.conf(5)). The hostname is set via
the hostname(1) utility at boot time. See hostname(7) for a description
of hostname resolution.
Empty lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored.
FILES
/etc/myname Default hostname.
SEE ALSOhostname(1), hosts(5), resolv.conf(5), hostname(7), netstart(8), route(8)HISTORY
This manual page first appeared in OpenBSD 3.4. The /etc/mygate file was
removed in MirOS #8.
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