(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
before executing the operation.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-H</option></term>
- <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute the operation
- remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>,
- to connect to. This will use SSH to
- talk to the remote
- system.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--static</option></term>
<term><option>--transient</option></term>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
</variablelist>