terminal not showing machine's name. Why?

[Akarin]

Hi all,

When I open terminal, I see this:

Before I used to have "myname's Mac mini:" on the prompt. Now, I always have this "unknown..." line. Anybody knows why and how to fix it?

Thank you!

 

[sidewinder]

Have you looked at what the "Computer Name" is set to in "Sharing" preferences?

S-

 

[Akarin]

Have you looked at what the "Computer Name" is set to in "Sharing" preferences?

S-

Yes... It's set on "MyName's Mac mini".

 

[Quad5Ny]

Does the "hostname" and "whoami" command list the correct info?

Try quitting Terminal completely and then logging on/off of your account.

 

[Akarin]

Does the "hostname" and "whoami" command list the correct info?

Try quitting Terminal completely and then logging on/off of your account.

This is what I get with those two commands, after logging off and back on:

 

[Macopotamus]

This is what I get with those two commands, after logging off and back on:

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Try setting the hostname again with "sudo hostname -s MacName"

 

[yawns]

sudo scutil --set HostName NAMEYOUWANT.local

sudo hostname doesn't save between reboots.

 

[Akarin]

I tried both commands above and none of them work. My terminal just enters a mode with a prompt showing this:

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...and nothing else. Then no command works and I have to quit & re-launch terminal before arriving to the same view as in the original post above.

 

[Phil A.]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-gb; GT-I9100 Build/GINGERBREAD) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1)

Try setting your DHCP client ID to your machine name in network settings and then Renee your DHCP lease.
I've seen this before when a DHCP server updates the DNS server with unknown and the MAC address which then gets used as the hostname.

 

[Akarin]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-gb; GT-I9100 Build/GINGERBREAD) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1)

Try setting your DHCP client ID to your machine name in network settings and then Renee your DHCP lease.
I've seen this before when a DHCP server updates the DNS server with unknown and the MAC address which then gets used as the hostname.

Although the client ID was blank and I did what you propose, still no joy. Still having the unknown string in terminal...

 

[Grimace]

I think Lion changed the name from something you name it to your MAC address. Check your Network settings and it probably matches up.

 

[shamalk]

Are you using Ethernet ?

Hi,
I have this problem when I connect my mac book air to Ethernet using the Ethernet to USB adapter.

When I remove Ethernet I get my normal hostname back.

Hope this helps.

 

[sidewinder]

The problem isn't your computer. Phil A. is right. The problem is that is the name you DHCP server is handing you.

Edit your account's ".bash_profile" file and add this to it:

PS1='$(networksetup -getcomputername):\W \u\$ '

The ".bash_profile" file should be at the root level of your user account. If it is not there, create it.

Now, if you put "8.8.8.8" at the top of your DNS list, I bet your hostname would work fine too.

S-

 

[nodnami]

The problem isn't your computer. Phil A. is right. The problem is that is the name you DHCP server is handing you.

Edit your account's ".bash_profile" file and add this to it:

PS1='$(networksetup -getcomputername):\W \u\$ '

The ".bash_profile" file should be at the root level of your user account. If it is not there, create it.

Now, if you put "8.8.8.8" at the top of your DNS list, I bet your hostname would work fine too.

S-

I had the same problem and this worked for me.