[indiana-discuss] Change default prompt in OpenSolaris?

[Shawn Walker]

On Feb 13, 2008 9:37 AM, John Tracy <john.tracy at covenant.edu> 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.
>

There's an ARC case regarding this that is ongoing:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/shell-discuss/2007-April/000684.html

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