From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 00:55:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA21459 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21440 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:55:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA29409; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:50:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA01384; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:50:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA16671; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:26:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604160726.JAA16671@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Configuration To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:26:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: markb@chartway.com (Mark Bernard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Mark Bernard" at Apr 15, 96 05:12:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Bernard wrote: (Should have gone to -questions.) > 1) It used to be on my 2.0 when I did a who to see who was logged on you > would see the IP..it now shows the host. What can I do to make it show > the IP again? Break your DNS lookups. :-) > 2) What are the metacharacters that I can use to vary my prompt in my csh? > Its set up with the history variable and I want it to show the directory. For plain csh, there's nothing but the history number (!). You have to alias cd (and pushd/popd FWIW) by something else that finally uses the builtin `chdir', and modifies the prompt after changing the directory. Modern shells like bash or tcsh offer you greater featuri^H^H^H^H^H^H^H flexibility here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)