[HolyRomanUmpire]

All,

A strange thing happened to me today. I've always named my Computer "Martha," but today when I fired up the terminal the command line read:

jennifer:~ foster$

With foster being my home directory. Where is jennifer coming from? I just did a clean install of Panther, but I've never named anything Jennifer. And if nobody knows why that's there, how do I change it to Martha?


HRU

[clam2000]

one cause of this is a dns server which hasn't updated properly, your mac will figure out it's hostname from the dns server....

the fix is fairly easy:
sudo hostname Martha

then relogin to your terminal

--will

[HolyRomanUmpire]

Thanks,

That worked perfectly. Weird about the DNS server though. If you have the time I'd love to learn what exactly is going on there with the funny name.


HRU

[TeknoTurd]

sweet, ive always wondered how to change that, thanks for the tip