X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fhostname.xml;h=a8648c5291745fc5a9ed6dd21b6a912f9cb0059c;hp=1acda1af5d24df060174b51df6688bd14601f08f;hb=3fde5f30bda2a70d97f3dc8fa918e42e1c07cc2c;hpb=63c52e45de6b6071d64cc4d3bb0d47357a1f5ead diff --git a/man/hostname.xml b/man/hostname.xml index 1acda1af5..a8648c529 100644 --- a/man/hostname.xml +++ b/man/hostname.xml @@ -9,22 +9,22 @@ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it - under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. + Lesser General Public License for more details. - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see . --> - /etc/hostname + hostname systemd @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ hostname - Local host name configuration file + Local hostname configuration file @@ -56,20 +56,25 @@ The /etc/hostname file configures the name of the local system that is set - during boot, with the + during boot using the sethostname2 system call. It should contain a single - newline-terminated host name string. The - host name may be a free-form string up to 64 characters - in length, however it is recommended that it consists - only of 7bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, + newline-terminated hostname string. The + hostname may be a free-form string up to 64 characters + in length; however, it is recommended that it consists + only of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, and limits itself to the format allowed for DNS domain name labels, even though this is not a strict requirement. - Depending on the operating system other + Depending on the operating system, other configuration files might be checked for configuration - of the host name as well, however only as fallback. + of the hostname as well, however only as fallback. + + You may use + hostnamectl1 + to change the value of this file from the command + line. @@ -88,7 +93,9 @@ hostname1, hostname7, machine-id5, - machine-info5 + machine-info5, + hostnamectl1, + systemd-hostnamed.service8