Hi Zac,

The confusing bit is how / why the prompt changes.  I’ve just checked on my 
main (ML) partition, and this doesn’t happen.  it’s caused me no end of grief 
actually trying to get mysql running.  At least, I suspect it was that though 
I’m possibly wrong there.

Dónal
On 26 Oct 2013, at 23:37, Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I noticed it as well. Not sure why, it seems strange, but also pretty 
> obviously deliberate. Odd decision on Apple’s part.
> Best,
> Zack.
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick <dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie> 
> wrote:
> 
>> evening all,
>> 
>> Here’s a strange one.  Under previous versions of OSX, the terminal prompt 
>> on my mac looked like:
>> 
>> DonalFitzpatricksMacbookPro:~dfitzpat$
>> 
>> which is all very normal.  However something very strange is happening under 
>> Mavericks.
>> 
>> If I run terminal, the prompt now looks like:
>> 
>> donalfiricksmbp:~
>> 
>> In other words my name and the type of machine is abbreviated.  There is an 
>> anomaly to this.  If I run terminal, then do a restart, terminal opens up on 
>> system boot up.  However, it opens up with the prompt:
>> 
>> DonalFitzpatricksMacbookPro:~$
>> 
>> Anyone know why this should be the case?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dónal dfitzpat$
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