[CentOS] Terminal - name too long
Johan Scheepers
johansche at telkomsa.net
Thu Nov 25 22:02:51 UTC 2010
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...
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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
Johan
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