Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:21:06 +0200 From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Message-ID: <f19cef57-9bce-828c-fe24-63a96842bb52@hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <20200630143913.e27eb3e3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CY4PR19MB010400AC4940C67421BFADE8F96E0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <DB8PR06MB6442289C119C69BDF4303E72F66F0@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> <20200630104317.812dce86b2dc5ea5a42a1ee1@sohara.org> <a590654c-ffa2-3171-ce44-ae3f33214b14@hedeland.org> <20200630143913.e27eb3e3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2020-06-30 14:39, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:27:58 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: >> On 2020-06-30 11:43, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:44:34 +0530 >>> Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It is often unnoticed that FreeBSD has a mirror of the root user >>>> appropriately named toor (whose shell can be anything). >>> >>> Traditionally root ran /bin/csh and toor ran /bin/sh to keep both >>> BSD and AT&T trained sysadmins happy, it really doesn't matter what login >>> shell root uses at work we use zsh, at home I use bash but you could even >>> use mc or vshnu. >>> >>> However the OP was concerned about the prompt (which many people >>> have correctly said involves setting PS1) rather than the shell. >> >> Yes, PS1 is what to set for /bin/sh and its relatives (e.g. bash, >> zsh), but it has no effect for csh/tcsh - there you need to set >> 'prompt' (and the "formatting sequences" are also different). And it >> seems the OP was primarily interested in root's prompt (i.e. csh by >> default). > > The first message says that the prompt character is $, which would > not be the case (per default) if the C shell was chosen; so the > case probably is related to "shell changed from C shell to sh", > rather than "the dog ate my configuration files". ;-) This was definitely not my impression of the OP's *problem* - in particular, the first message https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2020-June/290424.html says "When I am logged in as root it is #, even when I do not execute a shell. Usually it was root@machine17#. How do I change it back?", and https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2020-June/290428.html says "I don't want to change the prompt for the usr, just for the csh shell for root". --Per
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