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Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion
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I've recently bought myself one of the new mid-2011 Mac Minis with OS X Lion, I'm completely new to Mac OS but I've used linux quite a bit before. The problem I'm having is that at the terminal my hostname is displayed as (blanked some of the numbers out) this is basically "unknown-(ethernet mac ad…
Error Output
unknown-28-00-00-00-00-8f:~ michael$
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Fix for: Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion
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After a bit of playing about on the Terminal I've found a solution this has permanently changed my hostname - I've tested it with a reboot and full shutdown and it seems to have done the trick! This doesn't explain why it gave me the odd hostname in…
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