Show and change hostname

To show your hostname, you can conveniently type hostname into the terminal:

Example output:

Desktop.domain.local

To omit the domain information from the output, type hostname -s

Desktop

Hostname information is located in /etc/myname and it's read during the startup. Edit the content of the file to change hostname.

$ doas nvim /etc/myname

This will however propagate on the next reboot, to change the hostname immediately, type:

$ doas hostname new_hostname

$ hostname
new_hostname