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Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: QuantumII on January 14, 2008, 05:15:44 am

Hi

I was just wondering how I can change the default root :-) prompt to something like root@zaurus#: ?

it's just a variable somewhere,right ?

Thank you in advance

Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: Capn_Fish on January 14, 2008, 07:32:45 am

It's in /etc/profile, IIRC. Threre should be a line like

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export PS1="root:-)"
that you would change to

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export PS1= "'$(whoami)'@'$(pwd)'"
That may have a bug or two in it, but the basic format is the same.

Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: QuantumII on January 14, 2008, 08:03:29 am

Thank you  How can I change the #: to become $: when I'm a normal user ?

Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: Capn_Fish on January 14, 2008, 02:28:55 pm

Probably add something like this:

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if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  export PS1='\u@\h:\w\# '
else
  export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
That's adapted from the /etc/profile on my Debian box, so it ought to be good.

EDIT: That assumes your shell is bash. If not, it likely won't work, and you'll have to adapt the one above using this format.

Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: QuantumII on January 14, 2008, 03:28:27 pm

Thanks again  I was thinking about using IF , but I was unsure on the correct way to do it.

Title: Change Default "root :-)" Prompt In Pdaxii13
Post by: Capn_Fish on January 14, 2008, 03:41:13 pm

No problem.
I wasn't sure how to do it either, so I looked it up. Shell scripting isn't my strong suit.