From 7c9f396b8aa9346642d5bb163d305ce7127b1685 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:02:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: document that static/transient hostnames may be 64 chars at max --- man/hostnamectl.xml | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml index 60004e9d041..589a252ea83 100644 --- a/man/hostnamectl.xml +++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml @@ -71,10 +71,9 @@ 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 - limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain - names. + Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters and length used, while the static and + transient hostnames are limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain names, and 64 characters at + maximum (the latter being a Linux limitation). The static hostname is stored in /etc/hostname, see -- 2.39.2