Domain Name showing nothing with ~>domainname

[curt.]

Hello,
I am stuck with this issue and am a newbie.
I am running SUSE 11.
In the Yast2 Network Settings application in the Hostname/DNS tab, I am saving the Hostname and Domain Name, but running
~>domainname
still returns nothing.

How can I set the local domain on my OS? Do I need to enable a protocol or something?

I am running this on Win8 under VMWare 5.

Any help would be very much appreciated. So far everything else with this OS has gone really well. If I get this worked out I can start spending more time at WORK doing Linux stuff.

Thanks,

-Curt

[bsdtux]

You should be able to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network and set the hostname name in there.

Here is a sample from one of my vm lab servers

[root@devapp1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
HOSTNAME=devapp1.bsdtux.local
NISDOMAIN=bsdtux.local
[root@devapp1 ~]#

[zbilic]

Hi,

without switch "domainname" command sets domainname.

Check help/man.

domainname --help
Usage: hostname [-v] {hostname|-F file} set hostname (from file)
domainname [-v] {nisdomain|-F file} set NIS domainname (from file)
hostname [-v] [-d|-f|-s|-a|-i|-y|-n] display formatted name
hostname [-v] display hostname

hostname -V|--version|-h|--help print info and exit

dnsdomainname=hostname -d, {yp,nis,}domainname=hostname -y

-s, --short short host name
-a, --alias alias names
-i, --ip-address addresses for the hostname
-f, --fqdn, --long long host name (FQDN)
-d, --domain DNS domain name
-y, --yp, --nis NIS/YP domainname
-F, --file read hostname or NIS domainname from given file

This command can read or set the hostname or the NIS domainname. You can
also read the DNS domain or the FQDN (fully qualified domain name).
Unless you are using bind or NIS for host lookups you can change the
FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and the DNS domain name (which is
part of the FQDN) in the /etc/hosts file.

e.g.

test:~ # domainname -d
bogus.com

test:~ # domainname -f
test.bogus.com