On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:57:55 Rodney Baker wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:17:12 Bob S wrote:
On Sunday 22 February 2009 04:10:53 am jdd wrote:
Bob S a écrit :
Hello SuSE people,
Testing 11.1 with KDE 4.1
Konsole, or any terminal refuses to use my hostname. When it opens it says bob@linux-81s3 ~Documents. Where do I change that? It also will not keep any configuration I have set for it.
there are many places where a hostname is defined and I should open a bugzilla entry for that (but had no time to do now).
you can use
* YaST, network services (the place change with distro versions) * command line "hostname" (see man page) * /etc/hosts * /etc/postfix/main.cf * /etc/printcap * /etc/samba/
and may be other I missed :-( (do a grep -R yourhostname /etc
YaST don't change all
jdd
OK jdd, Made the direct file changes you suggested. It worked, somewhat. Konsole changed to the proper hostname but it keeps adding the "~Documents" to the name. Don't know where or how to change that, Oh well. Thanks again.
Bob S
Bob - the ~Documents part is because your bash prompt is configured to show Hostname + pwd (but it is stripping out the /'s from the path).
Take a look at the PS1 line in ~/.bashrc.
For example, mine says:
PS1="\A \u@\h:\w> "
Which decodes as:
\A = Current time (hh:mm) (followed by a space) \u = current username \h = hostname \w = current working directory.
Other characters (@, :, space) are shown literally.
There are other codes that can be used as well to display other system information or to specify colours.
Google "Bash prompt strings" for
Didn't get to finish that last sentence before plasma crashed and gave me a black screen. What I wanted to say was to google "Bash Prompt Strings" for some very useful information (there is even an "official" Bash-Prompt-HOWTO document that is pretty detailed. Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================