Re: hostname
Scott Lewis <[email protected]>
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It's probably in your wireless router. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[email protected]> wrote: > Where is the hostname stored? I have a Macbook Pro with 10.7 installed on it, first repartitioned and reformatted. It previously had Fedora 16 on it, with a hostname of f16.local. > > Yet despite repartitioning and reformatting and clean installing 10.7, the command prompt in terminal is: > f16:~ chris$ > > When I type hostname, the reply is: > f16 > > When I go to System Preferences>Sharing the "Computer Name" is mbp4. With file sharing enabled, other computers see mbp4 as the bonjour name. ssh to f16.local does not resolve, but mbp4.local does resolve. If I change the Computer Name, it is not changed in Terminal's command prompt until the computer is restarted, and now it appears to be in parity with the hostname found elsewhere. > > But initially it picked up the hostname from a completely different operating system? Despite disk partitioning and reformatting? > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin