>The service you are referring to is hostnamed [1]. hostnamed is
>designed to start on request and terminate after an idle period.
>Programs on your computer are probably querying the service to
>determine if your hostname has changed.
I see that I couldn't previously find it with systemctl because it is a
"static" service, neither enabled nor disabled. What is "static" really
intended to mean here? The other static services seem to be boot-time
related for the most part, eg anaconda, pvscan....
Man for hostnamectl (also new to me) indicates some potential uses for the
hostnamed-maintained names, yet I see nothing obvious making use of that
info. Can you give me an example?
Thanks for the clues.....Nick Geovanis
>Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:14:55 -0700
>From: Brandon Vincent <brandon.vinc...@asu.edu>
>To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] hostname service?
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>On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Nicholas Geovanis
><nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On CentOS 7, I find in /var/log/messages several times daily messages
>> "localhost systemd: Started Hostname Service.". However I can't seem t>o
>> find such a service using the systemctl command. What is the >"Hostname
>> Service", what does it do and why is it being restarted frequently? Many
>> thanks....Nick
>Hi Nick,
>The service you are referring to is hostnamed [1]. hostnamed is
>designed to start on request and terminate after an idle period.
>Programs on your computer are probably querying the service to
>determine if your hostname has changed.
>This is normal behavior.
>Brandon Vincent
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