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no crash that I know of, but something definitely went weird with that file (probably the same reason it lost the hostname line). just cleaned up the file and rebooted; everything appears fine... best, mark

hello- that did it, adding the HOSTNAME line to /etc/hostconfig.... thanks! looks like an automatic system update changed that file pretty dramatically and broke it as well; there's an auto-generated hostconfig.old file there from Nov 2002 that has this line in it...

hey cheryl- thanks for the reply! unfortunately that didn't help....and I do know that terminal wasn't reading the prefs file because my shell returned to default font, coloring, etc....

hey there- an upgrade or 2 ago, I noticed that Terminal lost all sense of the machinename ("greenthing") and always reverts to localhost. - the login screen correctly shows "greenthing" as the name. - systemprefs -> sharing correctly shows "greenthing" - /etc/hostconfig has this line in...