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| author | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2011-12-31 01:40:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2011-12-31 02:09:51 +0100 |
| commit | d129fef076e6dd4ba1b12717880cfa4f4f6ef1bf (patch) | |
| tree | 4b5743cc48fd3aa4066da2904306b1ae7d0b95f3 /hostname.5.txt | |
| parent | f26c97b536b0d4d3462cac5fac7d0aff513a4267 (diff) | |
| download | initscripts-d129fef076e6dd4ba1b12717880cfa4f4f6ef1bf.tar.xz | |
man: add hostname(5)
Also fix typo in Makefile making the install of the other manpages fail.
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
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diff --git a/hostname.5.txt b/hostname.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f141768 --- /dev/null +++ b/hostname.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +///// +vim:set ts=4 sw=4 syntax=asciidoc noet: +///// +hostname(5) +=========== + +NAME +---- +hostname - Local host name configuration file + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +*/etc/hostname* + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The /etc/hostname file configures the name of the local system that is set during boot. 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, and limits itself to the +format allowed for DNS domain name labels, even though this is not a strict requirement. + +In Arch Linux the HOSTNAME variable in /etc/rc.conf is checked for the host name as well, however only as fallback. + +HISTORY +------- +The simple configuration file format of /etc/hostname originates from Debian GNU/Linux. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +systemd.hostname(5), hostname(1), hostname(7), rc.conf(5) + +AUTHORS +------- +Original by Lennart Poettering, adapted to Arch Linux by Tom Gundersen. |