From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Wa5-000675-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:40:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7HMbvmR007186; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:37:57 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7HMVTiY012693 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:31:30 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so202079nzc for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:32:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=swfpe5LedyclxLc2NVBT5be50t7VpJPM3fFu0wq5EgTqSa4kLPYh7s2LZKuszO7WQrwy4x0igzKWcuBMgaO2nSrp6LqpngiluSGcDBBmP6ye0v7yXqtb0MTU0L2c8VzVsXg+cpfBSdoOlGXyBSfQw/pMSlXIPB6sIfi+eBF6Bjc= Received: by 10.36.222.70 with SMTP id u70mr890499nzg; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.58.18 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b05081715327147eeef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:32:24 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say 'mark@flash' anymore In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b05081714224c068794@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7HMVTiY012693 X-Archives-Salt: 33878e85-a0c4-47e8-be68-ba1d49c2764a X-Archives-Hash: a138760275d5f25d75845fb118467b96 Wade, Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened out. So far I see no difference between the machines that work and the laptop which doesn't when doing the grep -r PS1 /etc/* command. However, when I echo $PS1 at the command line I do get different results: Laptop (fails) flash ~ $ echo $PS1 \[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\] flash ~ $ Desktop (works) mark@godzilla ~ $ echo $PS1 \[\033[01;32m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\] mark@godzilla ~ $ Similar but not identical, and the issue right now is determining what set these, and if indeed these differences even matter. Thanks, Mark On 8/17/05, Wade Brown wrote: > The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming > you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as > ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of > /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through > your /etc on your different machines for the PS1 setting, and copy it > to the one that's missing, a good place to start is "grep -r PS1 > /etc/*" > > On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer > > greeted with a prompt that says: mark@flash ~ $ - it now it just says > > flash ~ $. > > > > What controls this? > > > > I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with > > my 3 working desktop machines, which do say mark@machine, I see no > > differences. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list