From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 19:11:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FD637B40B for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-007dcwashP015.dialsprint.net [63.178.91.23]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16061; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by earthlink.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 725E450D19; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:11:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:11:51 -0400 From: parv To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: Andre` Niel Cameron , free bsd Subject: Re: Help with shells please:) Message-ID: <20010913221151.A69850@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne Pascoe , Andre` Niel Cameron , free bsd References: <002301c13cbd$e6ede380$a50410ac@olmct.net> <86heu6edmb.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86heu6edmb.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>; from wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:59:40AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Sep 13 21:59 -0400, sent by Wayne Pascoe > > you need to set PS1 (probably in .profile > > PS1='\h:\w$ ' > export PS1 > if you are going to use ksh(88|93) at some point later, it's best to set things related to bash in .bash_profile and/or .bashrc. see bash(1). or, you could test for the shell & do settings accordingly in ~/.profile ... but that gets old & tiresome fast once you start using/experimenting w/ different shells. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message