On Thursday 09 March 2006 15:20, Tim Alberts wrote: > I'm used to the prompt on the terminal being something like > > [user@host ~]$ -or- [user@host ~]# > > I have a system that shows the prompt as > > -bash-3.00# > > when logged in as root. However if I log in as a system user, it appears > normal to me. > > How is this configured and how do I make it 'normal'? You need to set the environment variable PS1 mine prints the current directory and then a prompt on the line below the current dir display: export PS1='\[\n[$PWD]\] \n\[\033[1;34m\]\u@\h\[\033[m $\] ' the standard user@host PS1 would be something like: export PS1='[\u@\h~]$ ' -or- export PS1='\u@\h [$PWD] $ '
