summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/man/os-release.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-02-25 14:14:39 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-02-25 21:14:04 +0100
commit9f0840e421c3fc5df404ad51dd37e5ebb13f288b (patch)
treefba9b0f0abaecbfc9d34bf22319d3c714c3c75e3 /man/os-release.xml
parenttimesync: rename variable to match config name (diff)
downloadsystemd-9f0840e421c3fc5df404ad51dd37e5ebb13f288b.tar.xz
systemd-9f0840e421c3fc5df404ad51dd37e5ebb13f288b.zip
man: say that hostname must can be a fqdn or not
Fixes #18426
Diffstat (limited to 'man/os-release.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/os-release.xml3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index a6d333f278..e6162bdacf 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@
present and no other configuration source specifies the hostname. Must be either a single DNS label
(a string composed of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, limited to the format
allowed for DNS domain name labels), or a sequence of such labels separated by single dots that forms
- a valid DNS FQDN. The total length must be at most 64 characters.</para>
+ a valid DNS FQDN. The hostname must be at most 64 characters, which is a Linux limitation (DNS allows
+ longer names).</para>
<para>See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>org.freedesktop.hostname1</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>