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| -rw-r--r-- | man/hostnamectl.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml index 6746a7042f..a11f2215d9 100644 --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml @@ -69,11 +69,9 @@ (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 might be assigned temporarily due to network - configuration and might revert back to the static - hostname if network connectivity is lost and is only - temporarily written to the kernel hostname - (e.g. "dhcp-47-11").</para> + 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> <para>Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters used, while the static |