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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:45:48 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        tw@ettnet.se
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promt
Message-ID:  <3C9E02BC.5040403@cream.org>
References:  <02032415452000.00260@ppp-212-.ettnet.se>

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Thomas Widlumdh wrote:

>Hi,
>I use to login as root on "Alt+F1" and as user on "Alt+F2".
>I connect the internet from the user.
>Whole of a sudden, sometimes, the root prompt is changed
>from an ordinary # to "ppp-212-#"
>Why is that?
>>From where does the prompt get it's name?
>
Its sounds like your ISP might be resetting your hostname when you 
connect to the net.

I'm not sure, but try a 'host <your-ip-address>' and see if it returns 
ppp-212-.....

If that's the case, you can tell dhclient to override the hostname 
setting, see man dhclient or ask again on the list.

Andrew.



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