From f28e0674b7722428f7f9626a0d45444001b964d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:20:13 +0000
Subject: improve DESCRIPTION: note that hostname(1) can actually set the
 hostname, like its description says it can;

---
 bin/hostname/hostname.1 | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bin/hostname')

diff --git a/bin/hostname/hostname.1 b/bin/hostname/hostname.1
index f9c269dae12..6e8ee4f7d30 100644
--- a/bin/hostname/hostname.1
+++ b/bin/hostname/hostname.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: hostname.1,v 1.19 2007/05/31 19:19:14 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: hostname.1,v 1.20 2009/09/10 16:20:12 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: hostname.1,v 1.11 1995/09/07 06:28:39 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1988, 1990, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)hostname.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2009 $
 .Dt HOSTNAME 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -43,11 +43,16 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-utility prints the name of the current host.
-The superuser can set the host name by supplying a
-.Pa /etc/myname
-file.
-This is used at system boot time by
+utility is used to set or print the name of the current host.
+If no argument is given,
+the name of the current host is printed.
+.Pp
+The host name can be set by the superuser either by specifying
+.Ar name-of-host ,
+or by supplying a
+.Xr myname 5
+file,
+which is used at system boot time by
 .Xr netstart 8
 to initialize the hostname.
 .Pp
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