From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 8:44:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E96A37B419 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:44:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 427 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2002 16:44:43 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 24 Mar 2002 16:44:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3C9E02BC.5040403@cream.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:45:48 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tw@ettnet.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promt References: <02032415452000.00260@ppp-212-.ettnet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ' 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message