Display name different from hostname

[Stephen Carville]

The new corporate masters have decreed that all new machine have to be 
given a corporate assigned serial number as its name.  For example I 
have a new Xen box I 'm using for development which we all call "drake" 
but it's "slave name" is SCACITF01-D.  They name are pretty much 
meaningless so most in development and systems uses the hosts file to 
alias the common name to the slave name making this only a minor annoyance.

Less minor is that when I log onto a machine it displays the slave name. 
  Is there a way to have the shell prompt display the common name 
instead of the hostname?

-- 
Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
Systems Engineer
Land America
1.626.667.1450 X326