Type the command that reports a systemd system's hostname settings — static, and pretty or transient where they differ — together with its machine ID, operating system and kernel version.
LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, objective 109. Networking fundamentals easy
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Accepted answers
hostnamectlhostnamectl status
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Why
hostnamectl with no verb defaults to status, printing the three hostname classes plus identifying details such as the machine ID, boot ID, chassis, operating system and kernel. The static hostname is the persistent one in /etc/hostname; the transient one is the kernel value that DHCP or a container runtime may set at runtime; the pretty one is a free-form UTF-8 label stored in /etc/machine-info. Individual values are set with `hostnamectl set-hostname`, optionally narrowed by --static, --transient or --pretty.
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- manual page hostnamectl(1)
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