On Wednesday 4 October 2006 03:57, james wrote: > Well when I ssh into a remote system, bash detects this (hostname) > and displays the hostname in the prompt(command line) > automatically. So it is possible,
I'd say that you got the remote hostname in the prompt because you are in effect running bash *on the remote system* and seeing its output, not because bash "detects" the hostname. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list