bionic (8) ypdomainname.8.gz

Provided by: yp-tools_3.3-5.1_amd64 bug

NAME

       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

SYNOPSIS

       domainname [ domain ]
       nisdomainname [ domain ]
       ypdomainname [ domain ]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

       getdomainname(2),    setdomainname(2),   yp_get_default_domain(3),   ypbind(8),   ypcat(1),   ypmatch(1),
       ypwhich(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8)

AUTHOR

       domainname is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.