SETHOSTNAME(2) — HP-UX

NAME

sethostname − set name of host cpu

SYNOPSIS

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

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 UTSLEN as defined in <sys/utsname.h>. This is normally executed when the system is bootstrapped, executed out of the file /etc/rc. This system call sets the nodename field in the utsname structure returned by uname(2).

ERRORS

Sethostname will fail and return an error if:

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

[EFAULT] Name points to an illegal address. The reliable detection of this error will be implementation dependent.

AUTHOR

Sethostname was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

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