Re: hostname problem

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"E" == E Papantoniou <eenep@sun.leeds.ac.uk> 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 
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