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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