Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC) From: davidson@freevolt.org To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Shell Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006301506140.9735@azone.org> In-Reply-To: <CY4PR19MB010400AC4940C67421BFADE8F96E0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> References: <> <CY4PR19MB010400AC4940C67421BFADE8F96E0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 Brandon helsley wrote:
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> There has been a difference in the hash sign of the command
> line.
If by "hash sign" you mean the '#' character, then (by convention) no
non-root user should have such a prompt.
'#' is for root alone.
> When I'm logged in as user it is $.
This sounds like it could be a normal non-root user whose shell is
/bin/sh.
When logged in as that user, you can see what default shell they have
like so:
$ finger `whoami`
Login: poe Name: little red riding hood
Directory: /home/poe Shell: /bin/sh
[...] ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
If the shell is /bin/sh, then the configuration file for that user's
shell is in ~/.shrc. You might be able to set the prompt to something
more helpful by uncommenting some lines in that file.
Uncomment these lines, for example:
$ cat ~/.shrc
[...]
# # set prompt; ``username@hostname$ ''
# PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
# case `id -u` in
# 0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
# *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
# esac
When you've uncommented the lines, you can either log out and back in
again, or just do
$ . ~/.shrc
to re-read the configuration, and hopefully see a prompt like
poe@machine$
instead.
> When I am logged in as root it is #, even when I do not execute a
> shell.
Is it possible you booted into single-user mode? That is what I would
expect to see from /bin/sh in single-user mode.
After boot messages, did you see a query prompt like
"Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
and then get your bare '#' prompt?
> Usually it was root@machine17#.
> How do I change it back?
> I have to do pwd instead of just knowing what directory I am in.
help
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