[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-06-10 09:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the > current directory. > ... > So for users, I can see where I am ("/usr/bin"). For root, I cannot. It > just says "bin". > ... > Is there a rationale for this? One guess:

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2017 09:24 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not seeing it :-P Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name) a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line. It's in red, has the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Toralf Förster
On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > I'm not seeing it :-P Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name) a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line. -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

2017-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2017 11:50 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a rationale for this? Yes, please look into /etc/bash/bashrc (near to the end) ;) I'm not seeing it :-P