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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-03 11:29:04 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-06 17:54:48 -0500
commit89a1675845a3aef3f2238d6f391629ea0f96986f (patch)
tree7dab8df10eff70e803b710ceeffe67f1ebba2853
parent75f2310f21b82ed626cdae5590f94debb028b472 (diff)
man/hostnamectl: refer to transient hostname as "fallback"
Saying it is the "default" is misleading, because it is almost never used.
-rw-r--r--man/hostnamectl.xml8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
index b1f038156d..60004e9d04 100644
--- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
+++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@
high-level "pretty" hostname which might include all kinds of
special characters (e.g. "Lennart's Laptop"), the static hostname
which is used to initialize the kernel hostname at boot (e.g.
- "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname which is a default
- received from network configuration. If a static hostname is set,
- and is valid (something other than localhost), then the transient
- hostname is not used.</para>
+ "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname which is a fallback
+ value received from network configuration. If a static hostname is
+ set, and is valid (something other than localhost), then the
+ transient hostname is not used.</para>
<para>Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the
characters used, while the static and transient hostnames are