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Finding More Information About the System Setup Tool

Type these parameters to ﬁnd information about the System Setup Tool:

systemsetup -printcommands

Displays a list of all the commands available for the System Setup Tool.

systemsetup -help

Displays a list of all the commands available in the System Setup Tool, with explanatory

information.

man systemsetup

Displays the complete manual pages, including usage examples.

About Get and Set Commands

For each “set” parameter, there is an equivalent “get” parameter that shows you the current

setting. For example, if you want to see whether the server is currently using a network time

server, type:

systemsetup -getusingnetworktime

and you’ll see something like this:

Network Time: Off

Then if you want to use a network time server, type:

systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on

and you’ll see this:

setUsingNetworkTime: On

Setting Server Identity and Preferences

Use these arguments to set information about the computer and how to handle startup.

Set the Computer Name

Use this command to set the computer name, which is used by ﬁle sharing and AppleTalk.

-setcomputername <computer name>

Example command:

systemsetup -setcomputername "All Purpose Server"

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