Hi Gina,
In fairness once it changes at startup it’s constant thereafter.
Dónal
On 28 Oct 2013, at 15:29, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Actually, I think it hasn't been that stable before. My Mac Mini running ML
> doesn't use the hostname in the prompt. But my Air does. However, both
>
Hello,
Actually, I think it hasn't been that stable before. My Mac Mini running ML
doesn't use the hostname in the prompt. But my Air does. However, both machines
are constant which sounds like it is different to Mavericks.
Gena
Georgina Joyce
Applied Psychologist
Training and Coaching.
Because
Hi there,
yes I quite agree. The computername and everything else seems quite normal.
However the Hostname command is reporting the hostname to be different. Instead
of:
DonalFitzpatricks-Macbook-Pro.local
(the computer name) the hostname is:
DonalFiricksMBP.lan
it’s abbreviating the compu
Hello,
Well, I haven't upgraded yet. I use the terminal a lot. So certainly won't
upgrade until things like this are fixed. I would have thought that it is a
potential serious security issue. Certainly, not something to be laid back
about. So what is the behaviour? Is it using the terminal invo
Hello Dónal & Zac,
Well I just picked up on the fact that there was a difference in the
punctuation in the prompts. I knew that punctuation represents the level of
user access on the system.
So why should something as important as the hostname change automatically?
Gena
Georgina Joyce
Applie
Hi Dónal, Zack, and Gena,
As Zack said, I think the default format of the command line prompt for
Terminal under Mavericks is not a big issue. However, I'll just mention for
Gena that by default root is disabled under all Mac operating systems, it
doesn't show up as a separate account, and for
Hi Zac and Gina,
Thanks both for your mails. I’m taking the liberty of responding to both in
one message.
The prompt is made up of the standard Unix characters such as \h for hostname
etc. You can see what the prompt is by echoing $PS1.
I think Zac is correct here as on the Mavericks partiti
Hi,
We’re overanalyzing this. :) The $ is just the same under Unix as under OS X.
Just because you’re an admin user under OS X doesn’t mean you’re root. The
problem has everything to do with the hostname,and nothing else.
Best,
Zack.
On Oct 27, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hello,
Hello,
Owch, that don't look good.
I don't know about how the OS X prompt is made up and what certain symbols
mean. I suspect they would be Unix standard. I have just tried to run as root
but I can't. On a Linux system the root user's prompt ends with a number sign.
However, here on OS X, a us
nal Message - From: "Zachary Kline"
> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility"
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:37 PM
> Subject: Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal
>
>
> Hi,
> I noticed it as well. Not sure why, it seems strange, but also prett
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- Original Message -
From: "Zachary Kline"
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility"
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal
Hi,
I suspect something with the network settings. It’s not just the
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- Original Message -
From: "Zachary Kline"
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility"
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: odd behaviour in Mavericks terminal
Hi,
I noticed
you’re dead right I just mored my .bash_profile and it has the prompt
specifically set to include \h which is the hostname. Most interesting indeed.
On 26 Oct 2013, at 23:43, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
> I suspect something with the network settings. It’s not just the prompt as
> far as I can
Hi,
I suspect something with the network settings. It’s not just the prompt as far
as I can tell, it’s the hostname.
I’d start poking around System Preferences.
Best,
Zack.
On Oct 26, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick
wrote:
> Hi Zac,
>
> The confusing bit is how / why the prompt changes.
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:
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
wrote:
> evening all,
>
> Here’s a strange one. Under previous versions of OSX, the terminal prompt on
> my
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:
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