Hostname displays incorrectly

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11-26-2007

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Thankyou all

The problem is finally solved.

The analysis done above is absolutely correct. Hostname was hardcoded in .profile file.

I have replaced the string

SYSNAME=`uname -n | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

with

SYSNAME=`uname -n | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

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thanks for the soln....

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