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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-08-19 11:02:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-08-19 11:02:24 +0200 |
| commit | 7c9f396b8aa9346642d5bb163d305ce7127b1685 (patch) | |
| tree | 326d74422e9eec9cad6fb81ddf242f93c3d6532c /man/hostnamectl.xml | |
| parent | 2c85bbaa53da1c7c3becbcb969b9aa388498d388 (diff) | |
man: document that static/transient hostnames may be 64 chars at max
Diffstat (limited to 'man/hostnamectl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/hostnamectl.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml index 60004e9d04..589a252ea8 100644 --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml @@ -71,10 +71,9 @@ 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 - limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain - names.</para> + <para>Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters and length used, while the static and + transient hostnames are limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain names, and 64 characters at + maximum (the latter being a Linux limitation).</para> <para>The static hostname is stored in <filename>/etc/hostname</filename>, see |