From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 7: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arf.bussert.COM (arf.bussert.com [209.183.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8714DFF for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonkman@bussert.com) Received: from arf (53.bussert.com [10.10.10.53]) by arf.bussert.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA27723; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:08:54 GMT (envelope-from jonkman@bussert.com) Message-ID: <00b401bf680f$35b1b4e0$350a0a0a@bussert.com.Bussert> From: "Matthew Jonkman" To: , "Jon Rust" References: <004a01bf67bf$42b16640$030a0a0a@jonkmangarage.com><007f01bf67bf$5bfec160$1791ddd1@balfourplace.com><006c01bf67c0$aff34240$030a0a0a@jonkmangarage.com> Subject: Re: Shell prompts Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:08:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My next question (you probably already anticipated this) How do I change my default shell without removing and adding myself again? ========================================= Matthew Jonkman Bussert Consulting ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Rust" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:57 AM Subject: Re: Shell prompts You've neglected to tell us what shell you're using, so it makes answering a little tougher. I use bash(1), which uses the PS1 environment variable to do what you want: export PS1="\u in \w \$" jon At 12:46 AM -0500 1/26/00, Matthew Jonkman wrote: >That tells me all I'd want to know, but how can I make the prompt itself be >something to the effect of: > >Username in /etc/mail # > >Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message