domain
       ypdomainname - set or  display  name  of  current  NIS(YP)
       domain


SYNOPSYS

       domainname [ domain ]
       nisdomainname [ domain ]
       ypdomainname [ domain ]



DESCRIPTION

       Without  an  argument, domainname displays the name of the
       current NIS domainname of the system.  domainname uses the
       getdomainname(2) function for getting the domainname, nis­
       domainname      and      ypdomainname      are       using
       yp_get_default_domain(3).

       Only  the  super-user  can  set  the name of the domain by
       specifying the new domain as an argument. All  three  pro­
       grams uses setdomainname(2) for this.


SEE ALSO

       getdomainname(2),                        setdomainname(2),
       yp_get_default_domain(3), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1),
       ypwhich(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), yset(8)



AUTHOR

       domainname  is  part  of  the  yp-tools package, which was
       written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.



YP Tools 2.8                 May 1999               domainname(8)

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