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Old 09-10-2004, 05:15 PM   #1
JinSeung
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Changing Bash Shell


I just installed Slackware based Vector Linux and everything's fine except one thing that just annoys me. It's nothing major really but my shell displays as:

root@myname:~#
(as root)

So how can I change the myname part? Purely for aesthetics.
 
Old 09-10-2004, 05:18 PM   #2
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...h-Prompt-HOWTO
 
Old 09-10-2004, 05:19 PM   #3
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Hi, welcome to lq. Have a look at this

http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/arti...m-prompts.html

http://floppix.ccai.com/bashcfg.html

good luck.
 
Old 09-10-2004, 08:54 PM   #4
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Thanks for the promptness.
 
  


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