Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:08:46 +0100 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
I tend to use "man -k hostname", not sure how different they are.
$ man -k hostname hostname: nothing appropriate.
Dave, something is wrong with your man pages or some index of the same - per@office68:~/gg> man -k hostname freehostent (3) - get network hostnames and addresses geoiplookup (1) - look up country using IP Address or hostname geoiplookup6 (1) - look up country using IP Address or hostname gethostname (2) - get/set hostname gethostname (3p) - get name of current host getipnodebyaddr (3) - get network hostnames and addresses getipnodebyname (3) - get network hostnames and addresses hostname (1) - show or set the system's host name hostname (5) - Local hostname configuration file hostname (7) - hostname resolution description hostnamectl (1) - Control the system hostname hosts (5) - static table lookup for hostnames nmtui-hostname (1) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager sethostname (2) - get/set hostname systemd-hostnamed (8) - Host name bus mechanism systemd-hostnamed.service (8) - Host name bus mechanism -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.1°C)