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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say 'mark@flash' anymore
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:44:44
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0508171538449affb7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say 'mark@flash' anymore by Mark Knecht
1 Wade,
2 Thanks. I found it. The laptop was setting PS1 in .bashrc while the
3 other machines were not. I removed it and things are working nicely
4 now.
5
6 Cheers,
7 Mark
8
9 On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > Wade,
11 > Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened out.
12 >
13 > So far I see no difference between the machines that work and the
14 > laptop which doesn't when doing the grep -r PS1 /etc/* command.
15 > However, when I echo $PS1 at the command line I do get different
16 > results:
17 >
18 > Laptop (fails)
19 >
20 > flash ~ $ echo $PS1
21 > \[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]
22 > flash ~ $
23 >
24 > Desktop (works)
25 >
26 > mark@godzilla ~ $ echo $PS1
27 > \[\033[01;32m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]
28 > mark@godzilla ~ $
29 >
30 > Similar but not identical, and the issue right now is determining what
31 > set these, and if indeed these differences even matter.
32 >
33 > Thanks,
34 > Mark
35 > On 8/17/05, Wade Brown <wanderer.wcb@×××××.com> wrote:
36 > > The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming
37 > > you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as
38 > > ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of
39 > > /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through
40 > > your /etc on your different machines for the PS1 setting, and copy it
41 > > to the one that's missing, a good place to start is "grep -r PS1
42 > > /etc/*"
43 > >
44 > > On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
45 > > > Hi,
46 > > > On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer
47 > > > greeted with a prompt that says: mark@flash ~ $ - it now it just says
48 > > > flash ~ $.
49 > > >
50 > > > What controls this?
51 > > >
52 > > > I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with
53 > > > my 3 working desktop machines, which do say mark@machine, I see no
54 > > > differences.
55 > > >
56 > > > Thanks in advance,
57 > > > Mark
58 >
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