From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 23:37: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (mail-srv.mr.com.ar [200.41.14.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32F514C82 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jote@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com ([200.41.14.121]) by mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-59784U17500L14800S0V35) with ESMTP id AR for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 03:37:17 -0300 Message-ID: <37883A86.53F55E65@bigfoot.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 03:32:38 -0300 From: "J. M. Albores" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie: The "PS1" environment variable & others. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry but I'm very newbie to FreeBSD and I'd like to have a more comfortable environment. I'd like to setup what in Linux is "$PS1", so the shell prompt may look like: [userID@host /actual/path ]# for root or "$" instead of # for non-root. How can i set up this env-var? And, BTW three other questions: 1. I see two "profile", one in "/" as dot file, and one in "/etc" (???). Is this the rule or I did something wrong? So: where should command aliases (not mail aliases) go? In /etc/profile or other file like /etc/bashrc? 2. I have man pages, info, FAQ and handbook as "online" or "on-CD" documentation. Is there any other info source in my CD's (trying to save $$$ by online www browsing) and something like HOWTO's? 3. Are CD's #3 & #4 just source files? I'm using Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.0 . TIA. -- J M Albores To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message