[CentOS] Terminal - name too long
Chris Geldenhuis
chris.gelden at iafrica.comFri Nov 26 05:55:25 UTC 2010
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Vnpenguin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 23:02, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote: > >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 11/25/10 12:36 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >>> >>>> Good day, >>>> >>>> >>>>> [johan at unknown2a6800000000 ~]$ >>>>> >>>> How/where could I make the above a lot shorter please. >>>> >>> A) choose a shorter hostname >>> >>> B) change your default prompt via an export PS1=.... in $HOME/.bashrc >>> >>> >>> see >>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/bash-prompt-escape-sequences.html for >>> the PS1 options... >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >> gedit .bashrc >> >> # User specific aliases and functions >> >> PS1="[johan@\W] \$> " >> >> [johan@~] $> cd /bin >> [johan at bin] $> >> [johan at bin] $> su root >> Password: >> [root at unknown2a6800000000 bin]# >> >> Now only need to fix superuser. >> Kindly where/how please >> > > * man hostname > * vim /etc/sysconfig/network > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi Johan, Follow exactly the same procedure that you did with your own login. Edit .basrc in /root and change the PS1 setting there. You have to be root to be able to do this. ChrisG
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