command prompt

Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com
Tue Nov 16 15:03:15 UTC 2004


If you just want your shell prompt to be what it used to be, issue 

export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$"

PS1 is the prompt variable...

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 01:38, freejay at tri-isys.com wrote:
> Hello, this is kind of a newbie question. The other day I logged on to our
> test Linux server here at work, I noticed that the command prompt changed from
> the normal "[root at localhost root]#" to "-bash-2.05b$". I think one of my
> colleagues changed something in the configurations. How is this possible?




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