Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:09:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, Tim Gustafson <guff@falconsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Prompt Message-ID: <19980416100945.U1090@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <353510DC.783753E6@san.rr.com>; from Studded on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:56:12PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415094449.11978B-100000@falconsoft.com> <353510DC.783753E6@san.rr.com>
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On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 12:56:12 -0700, Studded wrote: > Tim Gustafson wrote: >> >> 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: > > You're working way too hard. :) First off, .profile is for the Bourne > shell (/bin/sh), you want /root/.bash_profile. bash reads .profile too. > Also, bash comes with some very handy built in prompt > strings. Assuming you're using bash 2.01.01 (and you should be, it's > in the ports) you can put the following in your .bash_profile to get > what you want: > > export PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ ' I think he got that far. The original message contained a choice of the PS1 strings he wanted. Tim, I'm guessing that you become root via su. In this case, it doesn't read .profile and .bash_profile. Put the commands in .bashrc. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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