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Color the shell prompt

Posted 02-23-2006 at 08:28 PM by w322

add to ~/.bashrc: export PS1="\e[32m\u@\H[\W]>\e[0m"
This example makes the prompt green (32).

Some other colors (this is not all of them):

31=red
34=blue
35=purple
30=black

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Is there such a thing?

Posted 02-23-2006 at 02:27 PM by simcox1

An OS that works. An OS which doesn't start doing weird things for no discernable reason. Obviously Windows doesn't count. Neither do a lot of Linux OS's. Slackware is pretty good. Maybe FreeBSD. Is it possible to buy/get hold of, a piece of software, an operating system, that does what it says on the tin. Is Mac any good? They're all so full of promises. Windows promises to make your life easier. How could you ever cope without it? As far as I can see it's a complete load of bollocks. It makes...

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10 Things I hate about LQ.org

Posted 02-23-2006 at 01:29 PM by simcox1

1. Posts that begin with 'eek'
2. Posts that end with 'plz help'
3. Any reference to Jesus or similar in a signature
4. Newbies
5. The text of posts appearing when hovering a link
6. Lack of decent tutorials
7. People who know more than me
8. Particularly BSD people, who seem to view me with the same rather snotty attitude that I view Windows users
9. KDE (not specifically LQ related I know)
10.Podcasts that last an hour or more....

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Complete Debian Linux Server Setup Guide or tutorials

Posted 02-22-2006 at 07:24 AM by sridhar11
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This is atep by step tutorials how to setup Debian server this includes

Debian Installation
FTP Server Setup in debian
Webserver Setup in Debian
Samba Server Setup in Debian
Database Server Setup in Debian
Time clock sync for debian server
Mail Server Configuration in Debian
VNC Server setup in Debian
Proxy Server Setup in Debian
SSH Server Setup in Debian
tftp Server Setup in Debian
DHCP Server...

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