Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:47:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Gustafson <guff@falconsoft.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Root Prompt Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415094449.11978B-100000@falconsoft.com>
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I'd like to change my root prompt, but even when I put the following in
my /root/.profile, I still get a bash# instead of user@host:
# set prompt: ``username@hostname$ ''
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
case `id -u` in
0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
*) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac
I'm using bash for my shell, and everything else about the user pofile is
pretty much defaulted. In my personal user profile, this works fine. Is
there something special I have to to to make it work in the root profile
so that when I su myself, I keep the user@host prompt?
tim
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