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I have been working on my machine to setup a web server. At a certain point, I noticed my username & host name displayed at the very beginning of each line of terminal commands are different from the real information (see the screenshot).

  • Real username: ebooks
  • Real hostname: ebooks-vps
  • Displayed header: ns1 (the host name of the DNS server)

terminal_screenshot

Actually, I have setup Bind9 DNS server. "ns1" is the host name of that DNS server. All the servers (Apache2 & DNS) are installed on the same virtual machine.

I noticed this change when I did one of the following commands.

host -a localhost 
host -a localhost.domainname
host -a 127.0.0.1

How can I get the terminal display back to normal? (the commands are being properly performed though.)

OS Version: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Desktop 64bit

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    Whats the output of echo $PS1?
    – heemayl
    May 3, 2016 at 1:41
  • It's like this: 'ebooks@ebooks-vps ns1:~$ echo $PS1 \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ebooks@ebooks-vps ns1:~$ '
    – user229980
    May 3, 2016 at 2:19

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