Wierd Terminal, Help Needed.

[richiejenkins]

Ok, heres the thing. My sister has a blackberry which is not connected to the macbook in anyway. The macbook and the blackberry connect to the same wireless.

It really does have me puzzled why it is appearing in the terminal, any ideas?

Also it says the last login was from ttys000. What's that?

Cheers

 

[MacManiac76]

It seems that somehow your computer name in the Sharing Preferences got changed to "blackberry-980." Just go into your System Preferences and then to Sharing. At the top should be a field for the Computer Name and change it there.

 

[richiejenkins]

It seems that somehow your computer name in the Sharing Preferences got changed to "blackberry-980." Just go into your System Preferences and then to Sharing. At the top should be a field for the Computer Name and change it there.

Yes, however as soon as I use a firewall(little snitch) the blackberry no longer appears in the terminal?

 

[angelwatt]

Yes, however as soon as I use a firewall(little snitch) the blackberry no longer appears in the terminal?

Firewalls block incoming traffic. LittleSnitch blocks outgoing traffic. My Terminal doesn't show any of that because I changed the prompt.

export PS1=":\w> "

Read more about the prompt.

 

[richiejenkins]

Firewalls block incoming traffic. LittleSnitch blocks outgoing traffic. My Terminal doesn't show any of that because I changed the prompt.

export PS1=":\w> "

Read more about the prompt.

Hi, thank for the reply.

I'm still confused why it was there in the first place.

 

[calderone]

Hi, thank for the reply.

I'm still confused why it was there in the first place.

Do you tether to your Blackberry? (for Internet).

 

[richiejenkins]

Do you tether to your Blackberry? (for Internet).

No.

 

[calderone]

No.

Interesting. The "computer name" in terminal is actually the hostname of the machine. Well, it cycles between the Computer Name and Local Host Name depending on whether or not there are values.

One of the things you didn't clarify with the first reply is whether or not the Sharing Name was in fact the same as what appears in Terminal.

However, if there is a HostName it will always appear in standard prompt.

This means that you machine is going out and grabbing a HostName from a DNS/DHCP server. Confirm that a hostname is set by typing this into Terminal:

scutil --get HostName

Now, if this is the case, check Console for messages from configd. Something along the lines of

setting hostname to "blackberry-980"

The problem is of course figuring where the machine is grabbing the name from.

Also the ttys000 simply refers to the method of the last login. ttys I believe simply refers to the keyboard. While console refers to a login from a terminal console.