NAME

sys_id − system identification

SYNOPSIS

/etc/sys_id

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/sys_id contains the name that the system will be known as on communications networks such as UUCP, TCP, and XNS.  The name should be no more than eight lower-case letters and digits (to maintain compatibility with foreign networks) and be terminated with a trailing newline.  During system startup this file is read by /etc/rc and supplied as a parameter to hostname(1).  Various network programs do gethostname(2) or uname(2) system calls to determine the name of the local system.

FILES

/etc/sys_id

SEE ALSO

hostname(1), gethostname(2), uname(2). 

Version 3.6  —  December 20, 1987