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Most irritating Leopard problem ever.

I have a custom hostname set on my machine, because “Ian-Eures-Computer” just doesn’t do it for me. Here’s how I have it set up:

My Sharing settings

This is what the hostname actually is right now:

The actual hostname

Clearly, something is not right here. I’ve had it change to several different values, all names of public internet sites, seemingly at random. It makes no sense.

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3 Responses to “Most irritating Leopard problem ever.”

  1. Raaj Says:
    October 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    I had the same problem, Ian.

    Here’s the solution. As root, set hostname on the command line: hostname -s “your hostname”
    That fixed my problem!

    Cheers!

  2. Ian Says:
    October 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Yeah, I know how to set it back. It just sucks that I have to do it at all.

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