Shell not displaying normally.

tehkaao · 01-08-2008, 07:30 PM

Hello,
I know this is a minor annoyance but in CentOS 4.5 my shell displays -sh-3.00 under a user account but the normal hostname@directory is displayed in root. How do I get this displayed for all accounts?

griffey · 01-09-2008, 12:22 PM

Look for a file in your user home directory .bashrc or .tcshrc--you can change how your prompt appears using that file.

Code:

set prompt=\[`id -nu`@`hostname -s`\]\#\"

G.--

tehkaao · 01-09-2008, 05:36 PM

Is there a way to change it for everyone?

gilead · 01-09-2008, 05:39 PM

On my systems (Slackware), I have the following in /etc/profile:

Code:

if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/pdksh" ]; then
 PS1='! $ '
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then
 PS1='! ${PWD/#$HOME/~}$ '
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then
 PS1='%n@%m:%~%# '
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then
 PS1='$ '
else
 PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
PS2='> '
export PS1 PS2

griffey · 01-10-2008, 06:54 AM

All that stuff gets set globally in /etc/bashrc (in RedHat, at least, which I think CentOS is related to, right?).

Take a look at this article on messing with bashrc. I didn't know about some of what was listed on that page--I may be playing with bashrc for a while today too.

Good luck!

G.--