Well, when I loaded bash-2.05, I didn't have any hostname issues as such, but 
it did rename /etc/bashrc to /etc/bashrc.rpmnew - which caused a bit of 
confusion as my custom prompt was located there. All I had to do was change 
the name of the file back and all was well.

Hope this helps.
Jay

On Friday 07 September 2001 12:38, I was honored with this communique:
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote:
> > Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home
> > directory?
> > The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf
> > that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the
> > root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . .
> >
> > Maybe it's just a coincidence
>
> the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore the
> same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory, that
> bash-2.05$
> doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
> >
> >
> > hi
> > i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i
> > cant find it in the archive:
> > in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by
> > bash-2.05$
> > anybody?
>
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