[PLUG] What should prompt look like?

[Nat Taylor]

not sure why ssh generates the PS1 but your normal terminal doesn't. I'd
poke around for SSH in your .bashrc

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:32 AM Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:

> This should be of help:
> http://bashrcgenerator.com/
> I believe you need to set your PS1 in .bashrc
> Here is a tutorial on doing it manually:
>
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:23 AM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On my "new" Slackware machine, booting in run level 3, after startx, and
>> opening a terminal, the prompt looks like:
>>
>> bash-4.3$
>>
>> When I log in via ssh the prompt looks like:
>>
>> rsteff at ENU-2:~$
>>
>> When I open a terminal on Ubuntu, the prompt looks like:
>>
>> Dick at ENU-1:~$
>>
>> Why doesn't the prompt in the first example look like the one in the
>> second, or similar to the one in the third?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick Steffens
>>
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