X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fhostnamectl.xml;h=71973fde912748ecc819e458e522ffe2cea82f47;hp=f28e430a421bda3b0977982e2e1e883e82c1a627;hb=8d0e0ddda6501479eb69164687c83c1a7667b33a;hpb=409dee2e44e7dc73d6bf00d782938e4cb4105f5b diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml index f28e430a4..71973fde9 100644 --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see . --> - + hostnamectl @@ -49,7 +50,9 @@ - hostnamectl OPTIONS COMMAND + hostnamectl + OPTIONS + COMMAND @@ -66,11 +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"). + 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. Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters used, while the static @@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ /etc/hostname, see hostname5 for more information. The pretty hostname, chassis - type and icon name are stored in + type, and icon name are stored in /etc/machine-info, see machine-id5. @@ -92,21 +93,6 @@ The following options are understood: - - - - - Prints a short help - text and exits. - - - - - - Prints a short version - string and exits. - - @@ -123,30 +109,32 @@ before executing the operation. - - - - - Execute the operation - remotely. Specify a hostname, or - username and hostname separated by @, - to connect to. This will use SSH to - talk to a remote - system. - - If - set-hostname is - invoked and one or more of these - options are passed, only the selected - hostname(s) is/are - updated. + status is used (or + no explicit command is given) and one + of those fields is given, + hostnamectl will + print out just this selected + hostname. + + If used with + set-hostname, only + the selected hostname(s) will be + updated. When more than one of those + options is used, all the specified + hostnames will be updated. + + + + + + The following commands are understood: @@ -244,7 +232,7 @@ Exit status - On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure + On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.