RE: Re: console prompt question

["Jason Smith" <jvsmith@midamer.net>]

Thank you for the help Kara.  Instead of using the \u@... to get the
username to show I had to put $USER.  Works great now.

Thanks again
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-silug-discuss@silug.org
[mailto:owner-silug-discuss@silug.org]On Behalf Of Kara Pritchard
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:50 PM
To: Silug-Discuss@Silug. Org
Subject: SILUG: Re: console prompt question



On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jason Smith wrote:

> I have a minor cosmetic problem on one of my machines.  As of yesterday
when
> you login as a regular user the prompt shows 'I have no name!@pentium:~$'
> How did this happen and how do I go about changing it back so it shows
> 'user@pentium:~$'
>
Take a look at your /etc/bashrc. There should be a line in it that looks
something like this:

	PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

Play with that line, to get what you need.

-Kara

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