systemd-hostnamed.service

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-hostnamed.service 8
systemd-hostnamed.service systemd-hostnamed Hostname bus mechanism

`systemd-hostnamed.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed`

## Description

`systemd-hostnamed` is a system service that may be used as mechanism to change the system hostname. `systemd-hostnamed` is automatically activated on request and terminates itself when it is unused.

See the developer documentation for information about the APIs `systemd-hostnamed` provides.

## See Also

systemd 1, hostname 5, sethostname 2, machine-info 5