>> for some reasons bash writes out my host's mac address as a result of >> including \h in PS1. Do you know why? This was not always so. >> >> [gergoe@x0-13-xx-xx-xx-xx ~]$ echo $PS1 >> [\u@\h \W]\$ > > What does "hostname -f" come back with? [gergoe@x0-13-8f-52-82-28 ~]$ hostname -f hostname: Unknown host After this I set hostname with the similarly-named command and now it works, thanks for the tip. - Gergely _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos