domainname.1 (2010 09)

domainname(1) domainname(1)

NAME

domainname - set or display name of Network Information Service domain

SYNOPSIS

domainname [ name_of_domain ]

DESCRIPTION

Network Information Service (NIS) uses domain names to refer collectively to a group of hosts. Without

an argument, domainname displays the name of the NIS domain. Only superuser can set the domain

name by providing name_of_domain. The domain name is usually set in the conﬁguration ﬁle

/etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs

by setting the NIS_DOMAIN variable. The name_of_domain is nor-

mally a valid Internet domain name.

DEPENDENCIES

NIS servers use the NIS domain name as the name of a subdirectory of

/var/yp. Therefore,

name_of_domain cannot be a

. or .. and it must not contain

/. Since the NIS domain name can be as

long as 64 characters, name_of_domain may exceed the maximum ﬁle name length allowed on a given ﬁle

system. If that length is exceeded, the subdirectory name becomes a truncated version of the NIS domain

name.

The ﬁrst 14 characters of all NIS domains on the network must be unique; truncated names should be

checked to verify that they meet this requirement.

AUTHOR

domainname was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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domainname(1) domainname(1) NAME domainname - set or display name of Network Information Service domain SYNOPSIS domainname [ name_of_domain ] DESCRIPTION Network Information Service (NIS) uses domain names to refer collectively to a group of hosts. Without an argument, domainname displays the name of the NIS domain. Only superuser can set the domain name by providing name_of_domain. The domain name is usually set in the configuration file /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs by setting the NIS_DOMAIN variable.
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(Notes) A (Notes) dA 2 Hewlett-Packard Company −1− HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010