Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:56:12 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Tim Gustafson <guff@falconsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Prompt Message-ID: <353510DC.783753E6@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415094449.11978B-100000@falconsoft.com>
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Tim Gustafson wrote: > > I'd like to change my root prompt, but even when I put the following in > my /root/.profile, I still get a bash# instead of user@host: You're working way too hard. :) First off, .profile is for the Bourne shell (/bin/sh), you want /root/.bash_profile. Also, bash comes with some very handy built in prompt strings. Assuming you're using bash 2.01.01 (and you should be, it's in the ports) you can put the following in your .bash_profile to get what you want: export PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ ' Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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