Hi,
>>"E" == E Papantoniou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E> Hi all, I am having the following problem with the hostname:
E> when I login as a normal user I get the message:
E> hostname: you must be root to change the host name
E> I suspect that I might have messed up with files or permissions
E> without realising it, but I don't know where to start looking...any
E> ideas?
This is strange. Try this:
% grep hostname ~/.bash* ~/.profile* ~/.login* ~/.cshrc*
% type -a hostname
% hostname
manoj
__> type -a hostname
hostname is /bin/hostname
__> ls -als /etc/hostname
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Nov 21 03:02 /etc/hostname
__> hostname
tiamat
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