Re: [LUG]

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Smith wrote:
> My original post concerned my ip address which isn't static apperaing in my
> shell prompt in my new install on Mandrake 9.
> i.e mrmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx something
> or whatever the ip address changes to every few days.
> What do I edit so I could change it to something like mrmond@xxxxxxxxxx for
> example.

man bash is your friend, see PROMPTING

The default prompt is environment variable "PS1", which you can
set in lots of places, but probably $HOME/.profile is a good
bet.

PS1='\t \u \w $'
export PS1 

Try it out on the command line first.


It is displaying hostname by reverse lookup in the DNS, I dare
say you can force hostname some other way (see "man hostname"
for example).

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