NAME
domainname — set or display name of Network Information Service domain
SYNOPSIS
domainname
[name_of_domain]
DESCRIPTION
Network Information Service (NIS) uses domain names to refer
collectively to a group of hosts. Without an argument,
domainname
displays the name of the NIS domain.
Only superuser can set the domain name by providing
name_of_domain.
The domain name is usually set in the configuration file
/etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs,
by setting the
NIS_DOMAIN
variable.
DEPENDENCIES
NIS servers use the NIS domain name as the name of a subdirectory of
/var/yp.
Since the NIS domain name can be as long as 64 characters,
name_of_domain
may exceed the maximum file name length allowed on a given file system.
If that length is exceeded, the subdirectory name becomes
a truncated version of the NIS domain name.
The first 14 characters of all NIS domains on the network must be unique:
truncated names should be checked to verify that they meet this
requirement.
AUTHOR
domainname
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
