Prompt 1

[Mowatt]

How can I make all the user prompt's display the the server name and the user name's.

thanx mowatt

 

[bi]

Put this in /etc/profile:

HOST=`/usr/bin/uname-n`
LOGNAME=`/usr/bin/logname`
export HOST LOGNAME
PS1='$LOGNAME@$HOST: $PWD >'
export PS1

The first two lines use the backtick quote. The fourth line uses the regular quotes.

Also, I added : $PWD to this so you will know which directory you are in.

 

[bi]

Oop. The first line should be:

HOST=`/usr/bin/uname -n`

 

[AHinMaine]

Or if you you use tcsh:

you can use something like:

set prompt="%S(%h)%s[%B%n%b@%M] [%~] %B%#%b "

It will give you something like this:

(158)[user@host] [/tmp] >

And it also properly changes the > to a # when you become super user.

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Andy

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