Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:09:15 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "'parrothd@midwest.net'" <parrothd@midwest.net> Subject: RE: Keeping mutliple machine and telnets straight.... Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B3D32CA@exchange>
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Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >Hello, > Now that I have 3 FreeBSD machines on my network I've developed a nasty >habbit. I tend to telnet around from machine to machine and sometimes >(well, most of the time)lossing track of where I am. I've noticed on other >linux machines/shells the host name is in the command line...Ie... > >You have new mail. ># > >You have new mail. >hostname-# > >Is this just a different shell or what? > > >Thanks! What shell are you using? If you are using tcsh, you could try adding this to your .cshrc file: set prompt = %n'@'%M:'['%h']':%C3'>' Don't ask me _how_ it works, it just does. It gives you a prompt like: username@hostname:[command_no]:current_path> ie: fred@sparky:[4]:/home/fred> if you are using csh, try this instead: set prompt="`hostname`:`pwd`>" (I hope the double quote characters are readable) and you'll get a prompt like fred:/home/fred> Jeff --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond <mailto:jeffbond@compuserve.com> <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeffbond>; ---------------------------------------------------
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