Hi there, for some reasons bash writes out my host's mac address as a result of including \h in PS1. Do you know why? This was not always so. [gergoe at x0-13-xx-xx-xx-xx ~]$ echo $PS1 [\u@\h \W]\$ - Gergely
Gergely Buday wrote:> Hi there, > > for some reasons bash writes out my host's mac address as a result of > including \h in PS1. Do you know why? This was not always so. > > [gergoe at x0-13-xx-xx-xx-xx ~]$ echo $PS1 > [\u@\h \W]\$What does "hostname -f" come back with? Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080610/12fa66d7/attachment-0002.sig>
>> for some reasons bash writes out my host's mac address as a result of >> including \h in PS1. Do you know why? This was not always so. >> >> [gergoe at x0-13-xx-xx-xx-xx ~]$ echo $PS1 >> [\u@\h \W]\$ > > What does "hostname -f" come back with?[gergoe at x0-13-8f-52-82-28 ~]$ hostname -f hostname: Unknown host After this I set hostname with the similarly-named command and now it works, thanks for the tip. - Gergely