From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:22:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27022 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02057; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Myron cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: about the prompt In-Reply-To: <355575E0.602001D3@hsonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, Scott Myron wrote: > hi. this might be easy to do or it might be hard. I'm not sure. anyway. > how I change my prompt from "#" to something like "(root@freak ~)#" or > something like that because i'm just getting sick of seeing it "#" I use > the shell csh if that helps any. thanks alot. I don't know if csh supports the fancy stuff but you can do some neat effects with tcsh and bash. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message