NAME

       systemd-hostnamed.service, systemd-hostnamed - Hostname bus mechanism

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-hostnamed.service

       /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

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

NOTES

        1. developer documentation
           http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed