Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Wade, Thanks. I found it. The laptop was setting PS1 in .bashrc while the other machines were not. I removed it and things are working nicely now. Cheers, Mark On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wade, >Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Wade, Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened out. So far I see no difference between the machines that work and the laptop which doesn't when doing the grep -r PS1 /etc/* command. However, when I echo $PS1 at the command line I do get different results: Lapto

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Wade Brown
The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through your /etc on your differen

[gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer greeted with a prompt that says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ - it now it just says flash ~ $. What controls this? I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with my 3 working desktop machines, which do say [EMAI