SETHOSTNAME(2)

NAME

sethostname − set name of host cpu

SYNOPSIS

sethostname(name, namelen)
char *name;
int namelen;

HP-UX COMPATIBILITY

Level: HP-UX/RUN ONLY

Origin: UCB

DESCRIPTION

This call sets the name of the host processor to be name, which has a length of namelen characters. The maximum value of namelen is determined by the uname structure. This is normally executed when the system is bootstrapped, executed out of the file /etc/rc. This intrinsic sets the nodename field in the utsname structure returned by uname(2).

Sethostname will fail and return an error if:

[EPERM] It is not executed by the super-user.

[EFAULT] Name points to an illegal address.

HARDWARE DEPENDENCIES

Integral PC:
The super-user capabilities are provided to the normal user.

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