avahi-set-host-name(1)

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💖 avahi-set-host-name(1) — the general commands manual page, bestie 💖

okay so bestie, we're in the General Commands Manual section and this whole page is about avahi-set-host-name. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're renaming stuff on the network ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

avahi-set-host-name — change the mDNS host name 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

avahi-set-host-name host-name

like. one argument. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So what does it do? It sets the mDNS host name of an Avahi daemon that is currently running. That's it. That's the mission. 🎀

⚠️ important, no cap: the effect of this operation is not persistent across daemon restarts. so if your daemon takes a nap and wakes back up, your cute new host name is gone. ghosted. 💀

Also — this operation is usually privileged, meaning you're probably gonna need the big-girl permissions (iykyk, sudo energy). 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -v | --verbose — enable verbose mode. she talks more. you get more info. slay. 🔥
  • -h | --help — show help. whenever you're lost, she's got you 🫶
  • -V | --version — show version information. for when you gotta know exactly which era of Avahi you're living in ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org> — absolute icons, we stan 🧚

Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/ 🌐

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • avahi-daemon(8) — the main character herself, go read about the daemon 💜

🍓 COMMENTS 🍓

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth. king behaviour honestly 💖

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🌈✨ — this one's from the Manuals lineup, sitting pretty in the User section, and it's the avahi-set-host-name(1) page fr fr 🎀💅🫶

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