Once upon a time, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> said: > You would just overwrite in in your own .bashrc if you have long > hostname and they get in your way. > > Long hostnames are far more practical for administrators to use then > short hostnames have ever been. That's your opinion; please don't state it as if it is an agreed-upon fact. Mine differs; personal like/dislike is not a good reason to change existing defaults. Some people have long domain names (and not just a lot of dotted components, but long individual sections); taking up a bunch of space on every prompt line just to re-print the same domain is a waste. However, even with a short domain, it is just too much IMHO (and I worked for several years for someone with just about as short of a domain name as you can get). I find the Red Hat/Fedora default prompt too long already; IMHO: - The square brackets are useless wrapping; there's also a character+space separator at the end of the prompt. - The "user@" is mostly useless; if you su/sudo to root, the character at the end of the prompt changes from $ to #. The only time I would be interested in seeing user@ is if I've su/sudo to a user (other than root) that doesn't match the login user for this TTY; on Linux this can be as easy as the following bit of bash: local user="" if [ "$UID" != 0 -a ! -O /proc/self/fd/0 ]; then user='\u@' fi PS1="$user"'\h \W\$ ' -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
