Terminal: Wrong Domain

bezaleel · 01-19-2004, 08:51 PM

Somehow I messed up something when I was setting up in the beginning: when I'm in Terminal, instead of it telling me my login as this--literally "aholiab@localhost"--somehow I thought this should be my dial-up ISP, mfire. So it prompts me with literally "aholiab@mfire".

What should I change to fix the prompt? I see that I can control my prompt in .bashrc, but is there something more fundamentally wrong? (When I'm logging in, the system also wonders where mfire.com is--but I'm just on a dial-up ISP.)

carlmarshall · 01-20-2004, 07:19 AM

The hostname of the system is held in /etc/HOSTNAME

Edit this to your choice.

Don't forget to change the entry in /etc/hosts so that the system can resolve its own IP address.

Carl.

bezaleel · 01-20-2004, 06:13 PM

"The hostname of the system is held in /etc/HOSTNAME. Edit this to your choice.

"Don't forget to change the entry in /etc/hosts so that the system can resolve its own IP address."

My /etc/hosts is just fine: I have what I expect.

But I don't have any such file as /etc/mfire. I have a number of files including "mfire" in lower folders within /etc, but all of them seem to be properly connected to my ISP.

None seem to be just for my localhost.

Any ideas?

carlmarshall · 01-21-2004, 03:11 AM

OK, but what do you have in /etc/HOSTNAME ?

Carl.