Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say 'mark@flash' anymore

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Wade,
   Thanks. I found it. The laptop was setting PS1 in .bashrc while the
other machines were not. I removed it and things are working nicely
now.

Cheers,
Mark

On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <wanderer.wcb@gmail.com> 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 <markknecht@gmail.com> 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
>

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