hostname is junk
 

Hi,

Been searching around why my terminal is username@ipaddress?

And what could have caused this to be, as I did not.

It used to be username@linux, but that was behind a router which I did not share through. Would this cause this?

Anyway, tried hostname -v linux and now the konsole does not work.

I mearly do not what it to state my ip. Even tried yast to set it, I put username @ box. It just set it back to username@ip.

There are lots of terminals. They have scripts to set these things. I use GNOME and gnome-terminal -t title
is supposed to work but it gets changed.

I went into the terminal menu and edited an option edit/profiles/Default/edit

clicked on Title and command
selected "dynamically set title" and "is not displayed" I also set my title to something very imposing.

It used to be username@linux, just wondering if that could be again.

Anything goes. It is just text and its only function is to fill the space at the top of the terminal's window.

Here is a howto on how to set your hostname through yast: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16022.html
(and some stuff about the firewall)
Is this what you did ? Did you get your konsole working again?

login as root and run the command
#hostname whatever_you_like

However this change will be temporary only.

TO make it permanent in your ~/.profile or /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile put the above command to make this effect evident.

alternatively you may add your desired hostname in
/etc/hostname (create the file if it doesn't exist)

I think I was tired when I wrote this I think I mean domain name