posted 17 years ago
On my PowerBook, Terminal gives me a prompt like...
computerName:~ userName$
But on my iMac, Terminal gives me a prompt like...
user-xxlxxkx:~ userName$
...where the x's are digits. Does anyone know why it shows "user-xxlxxkx" instead of the computer name? Both machines are running bash, OS 10.4.6.
My reference book, The Mac OS X Command Line - Unix Under the Hood, just says that this part should be the computer name as shown on the Sharing panel under System Preferences. But my iMac's name is simply "imac-g5".
[ May 10, 2006: Message edited by: marc weber ]
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