On Thursday 01 July 2004 13:47, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:18 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > I forgot one thing Hoyt. SBC (at least here) requires I > > > use my email address as my UserID. EG, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of as rp-pppoe suggests, > > > just tbrinkman. > > > > > I noticed that my tag line on the terminal changed to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ > > I suspected that was my user ID provided by sbc, (in dot > > notation). 67.65.249.187. Yahoo accepts the email address. > > -- > > Regards; > > Hoyt > > Which makes me suspect your entire network is misconfigured. > The only time my bash prompt got changed such as yours was early > on in my DSL experience (2 years ago). Even then I had always > edited /etc/bashrc to eliminate 'localhost' from my bash prompt. > [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1=" \W \\$ " I knew there was > somethin wrong when I got a promtp like yours, and my dsl > connection was fubar'd at the same time. > > Maybe you've got hostname screwed up somewhere along the line? > I don't fool with it because it can break so many things. > There's several hands on this list that would be better at helpin > you than me.
Thats likely. I got some advise on changeing it but didnt implement the change, maybe its time. -- Regards; Hoyt
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