On Tuesday 15 June 2004 23:07, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote: New hat eh? I found me one at a truck stop in Iowa while on a trip west this past week, says "I'm retired" in big bold letters on line 1 and "(this is a dressed up as I get)" on line 2. Obviously I had to have it. :-) >On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am Mo, den 14.06.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 14:13: >> > I would like to have a message displayed when users open the >> > terminal. This I can do! But. > >.... > >> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html > >Did this URL move/break? Anyhow since it looks broken at this > moment. > >Two quick reminders. > >In the .bash-* files remember to verify that this is an interactive >tty (pseudo terminal session). Many scripts, cronjobs, remote user, >ssh user stuff will BREAK if bash is noisy when it should be quiet. Stuff like X! I spent a week trying to figure that one out as it was several days after I changed the prompt before I had to restart X, and all I could get was the black screen with a working X shaped mouse pointer. No errors, none, nada, were being logged. >Also test the $TERM environment variable and verify >that this is a terminal that supports the magic you want. >Have a default that makes sense... there are more than 1300 >terminals described in the termcap data base you will not get >them all so focus on the one or two you care about. > >Since this is an international list I should add that language >and character sets can be important. If things look broken >and you get stuck language and character variables too. > >Take /etc/bashrc as a starting place. Note that two things are >checked... Interactive and $TERM=xterm. If users are at the >end of a wyse50, vt100 or some other terminal/ emulation recheck >this stuff. > > ================ snip ======================= > # are we an interactive shell? > if [ "$PS1" ]; then > case $TERM in > xterm*) > if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then > PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm > else > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne > "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"' fi > ================ snip ======================= > >Other shells (ksh, csh, tcsh) test for an interactive session >differently. Note that csh and tcsh may want $term not $TERM. The >escape sequences are specific to the terminal program, RTFM. > >Note the subtle change from $ to # as a user switches from >a normal user to root (UID=0). Keep this small change intact. > > >-- > T o m M i t c h e l l > /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
