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Command: myname | Section: 5 | Source: OpenBSD | File: myname.5
MYNAME(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual MYNAME(5)
NAME
myname - default hostname
DESCRIPTION
The myname file is read by rc(8) at system startup time.
/etc/myname contains the symbolic name of the host machine. The file
should contain a single line specifying the fully qualified domain name
(FQDN) of the system (e.g. host.example.com). The name must be
resolvable, either by matching a hostname specified in /etc/hosts (see
hosts(5)) or through DNS (see resolv.conf(5)). The hostname is set via
the hostname(1) utility at boot time. See hostname(7) for a description
of hostname resolution.
Empty lines and lines beginning with `#' are ignored.
FILES
/etc/myname Default hostname.
SEE ALSO
hostname(1), hostname.if(5), hosts(5), resolv.conf(5), hostname(7), rc(8)
HISTORY
Support for the file /etc/myname first appeared in 386BSD 0.1.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 March 29, 2025 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8