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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:45:20 -0500
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        "Joshua Lewis" <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Shells
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0609072045g68360e49q18f5f6f763cfffe5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1157680784.3025.7.camel@freebsd.ffnz.net>
References:  <1157680784.3025.7.camel@freebsd.ffnz.net>

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On 9/7/06, Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net> wrote:
> My shell mysteriously changed. I don't know what port changed the shell
> but how do I put it back to normal. I liked how when I was logged in or
> su'ed to root I had a prompt with the computer name and a hash sign. Now
> I have a percent sign and when I try to change the shell with chsh I can
> not get it to work anymore.
>
> I am doing chsh -s /bin/sh is that correct? Is that the default BSD
> shell?

Percent sign would mean that you are still using
csh, which is actually tcsh, if I am not mistaken.
You can set your prompt with
set prompt = '%m%# '

I do not know about the su situation.

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