So dumb, so dumb

[karavite]

Well, despite reading about it a hundred times, I committed a "rm *" while thinking I was in one directory when I was actually in my home directory - ~/

I don't think I lost anything important - all my "." files are there of course. Was there anything important I could have erased? All my scripts, paths and XWindows stuff work just fine. The only thing weird I am seeing is that my tcsh terminal prompt no longer says "localhost" - it now says "[cc2240414-b:~] username% ", but this happens no matter what account I am signed in under and terminals from XDarwin.

I had done my first ever sudo su to sign in as root for installing XEphem (an astronomy program) earlier today, and I can't be sure when the prompt changed, but it seems kind of weird and my anal retentive nature wants "localhost" back! Any ideas on:

1. Did I ruin anything important with my rm * in ~/
2. What is going on with my terminal prompt?

Thank you very much! P.S. I will set up aliases for rm and rmdir so that they always call the "are you sure" flag.

 

[karavite]

Sorry to bug you, but my terminal prompt "localhost" is back all by itself. I think the rm * in ~/ and this occuring were just a coincidence. Any ideas why the prompt changed?

12/16/01
At the risk of having a conversation with myself, I figured this out. I just switched to Comcast and I was running my Mac straight into the cable modem until I set up my router. The funky name for the promt was the DHCP Client ID used by Comcast, but now that the Mac is using the router, this setting is in the router - not the Mac.