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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-12 13:27:12 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-12 13:27:12 +0000
commitaed447f2fcbeedad1cc02f452bc43d339a1cfe11 (patch)
tree8072f527fd7010dbdbd579d59d02e9b8e484533c /share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
parent77bdf403faef83eaf7817dc9a87f98839ab3e04e (diff)
note that args w/ whitespace and single quotes must be double quoted;
requested by alexey e. suslikov; ok henning@
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 b/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
index f0da996221f..1d3b7bb6576 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.if.5,v 1.40 2005/04/12 12:05:10 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.if.5,v 1.41 2005/04/12 13:27:11 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: hosts.5,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:31:20 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ or
However, a configuration file is not needed for lo0.
Note that multiple entries can be used per configuration file.
.Pp
+Arguments containing either whitespace or single quote
+characters must be double quoted.
+For example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+inet 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.255 description "Bob's uplink"
+.Ed
+.Pp
The following three formats are valid for
.Nm hostname.*\&
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