command prompt

ryedunn · 03-05-2004, 02:46 PM

at a command prompt I get

Quote:

username@x1-6-110-0d-41-25-f3-47

something like that. Shouldnt it say username@servername?

I thought editing the /etc/hosts file would change that but Im obviously wrong.

Any suggestions?
The GNUbie

gregaryh · 03-05-2004, 03:13 PM

Depends on your Distro. On SuSE Systems for instance you would create a file called HOSTNAME in the /etc directory with a single line containing your fully qulaified domain name (FQDN). Or you can use YaST to set it.

ryedunn · 03-05-2004, 03:30 PM

Mandrake 9.2

ken1977 · 03-14-2004, 11:16 PM

Did you ever figure out a solution to it? If you happen to get username@servername or username@ipaddress, I would be grateful if you could post a quick synopsis of what you did.

Tinkster · 03-15-2004, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ryedunn
at a command prompt I get something like that.

username@x1-6-110-0d-41-25-f3-47

Shouldnt it say username@servername?

I thought editing the /etc/hosts file would change that but Im obviously wrong.

Any suggestions?
The GNUbie

Considering the presence of the x and a three-digit
section it's certainly not a mac address ... more likely
to be the assigned hostname that you have with your ISP.

Maybe you want to add your hostname with a
local IP address to your /etc/hosts

Cheers,
Tink

ryedunn · 03-16-2004, 07:55 AM

I was as simple as just typing

hostname <whatever>