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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-02-08 12:52:39 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-02-08 12:52:39 +0100
commit14f453202613aecae6e96882eb1bb544f53a2a86 (patch)
treee3986b0660d584098465ba572694dafaa7e6f82d /man
parentef9fde5378c0b2614991f9e3c4ac525cc07736a8 (diff)
parent8cd095cc2724dac7523eda400522bbda41219d43 (diff)
Merge pull request #2543 from keszybz/build-sys-and-man-fixes
Build sys and man fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/hostname.xml4
-rw-r--r--man/hostnamectl.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.generator.xml15
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostname.xml b/man/hostname.xml
index 9688450e1c..8a4c0d5ac0 100644
--- a/man/hostname.xml
+++ b/man/hostname.xml
@@ -64,10 +64,6 @@
for DNS domain name labels, even though this is not a strict
requirement.</para>
- <para>Depending on the operating system, other configuration files
- might be checked for configuration of the hostname as well,
- however only as fallback.</para>
-
<para>You may use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostnamectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to change the value of this file during runtime from the command
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
diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml
index 62658fb115..4b80dab108 100644
--- a/man/systemd.generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml
@@ -164,13 +164,16 @@
Generators are run very early at boot and cannot rely on
any external services. They may not talk to any other
process. That includes simple things such as logging to
- <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
or <command>systemd</command> itself (this means: no
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>!). They
- can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to
- be available, including a mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
- <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/dev</filename>.
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>)!.
+ Non-essential file systems like
+ <filename>/var</filename> and <filename>/home</filename>
+ are mounted after generators have run. Generators
+ can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to be
+ available, including a mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
+ <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/dev</filename>,
+ <filename>/usr</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>