[indiana-discuss] Change default prompt in OpenSolaris?

[Michelle Olson]

Hi John,

In the meantime, I think this /etc/profile hack might be nice to include 
in the Getting Started Guide (could be a nice start to a new section on 
shells). Instructions for accessing the source for the guide and 
contributing are here if you're interested:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/documents/

We only recently set up the docs1 repository, so let us know if you have 
any questions or problems. You can find tools and style tips here 
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation

Thanks,
Michelle Olson
OpenSolaris Documentation Community Leader


John Tracy wrote:
> Hello All-
> I recently installed Developer Preview 2, and was pleasantly surprised when a bash shell greeted me by default. I was wondering, however, if we may change the default prompt to be something a bit more useful than just "bash3.2$". One of the first things I do when deploying a copy of Solaris is to hack the /etc/profile file to make my prompt a bit more useful, containing my present working directory and the hostname. This is the default in a lot of Linux distributions, and if the point is to bridge the gap, I think this would be a good starting point. I'm including my settings i use in /etc/profile as a starting point, if anybody is interested.
>
> The settings below would make a prompt look like this:
>     root at mx1:/var/tmp#
>
> My apologies if this has already been hashed out before in this group. I don't recall having seen any discussions on this topic previously.
>
> And, I hope I'm not stepping on anybody's toes or starting a religious flamewar. I know different folks like different prompts. I couldn't care less if you don't like mine--however I do think we should make an effort to make the prompt at least a little more informative than what is currently is.
>
> Cheers-
> John Tracy
>
> #ident  "@(#)profile    1.19    01/03/13 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.3   */
>
> # The profile that all logins get before using their own .profile.
>
> trap ""  2 3
> export LOGNAME PATH
>
> if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
> then
>         if /bin/i386
>         then
>                 TERM=sun-color
>         else
>                 TERM=sun
>         fi
>         export TERM
> fi
>
> #       Login and -su shells get /etc/profile services.
> #       -rsh is given its environment in its .profile.
>
> case "$0" in
> -sh | -ksh | -jsh | -bash)
>
>         if [ ! -f .hushlogin ]
>         then
>                 /usr/sbin/quota
>                 #       Allow the user to break the Message-Of-The-Day only.
>                 trap "trap '' 2"  2
>                 /bin/cat -s /etc/motd
>                 trap "" 2
>
>                 /bin/mail -E
>                 case $? in
>                 0)
>                         echo "You have new mail."
>                         ;;
>                 2)
>                         echo "You have mail."
>                         ;;
>                 esac
>         fi
> esac
>
> # Let's set our default paths so things actually run
>
>         #First set path to files which should only be run by root
>         if [ "`/usr/xpg4/bin/id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
>                 PATH=${PATH}:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>         fi
>
>         # Now let's set paths that everybody should have
>         PATH=/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin
>         export PATH
>
> # Make our prompt pretty
> PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
> export PS1
>
> # Set some options to keep us from making mistakes
> set -o noclobber
> alias cp='cp -i'
> alias mv='mv -i'
>
> # Let's change to VIM for our default editor
> alias vi=vim
> EDITOR=vim
> export EDITOR
>
> # Let's have pretty directory listings
> #alias ls='/usr/local/bin/ls'
> umask 022
> trap  2 3
>
> cc=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
> CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
> export CC
> export cc
> --
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