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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-08-19 11:02:24 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-08-19 11:02:24 +0200
commit7c9f396b8aa9346642d5bb163d305ce7127b1685 (patch)
tree326d74422e9eec9cad6fb81ddf242f93c3d6532c /man
parent2c85bbaa53da1c7c3becbcb969b9aa388498d388 (diff)
man: document that static/transient hostnames may be 64 chars at max
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-rw-r--r--man/hostnamectl.xml7
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