From 89a1675845a3aef3f2238d6f391629ea0f96986f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:29:04 -0500 Subject: man/hostnamectl: refer to transient hostname as "fallback" Saying it is the "default" is misleading, because it is almost never used. --- man/hostnamectl.xml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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. + "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. Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters used, while the static and transient hostnames are -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf