Re: [ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 17 May 2001 - 15:30:41 IST


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:49:58PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> yes. a nice GUI tool, so that i can easily do what i want to do with
> my boxes with as little hassle as possible, instead of having to look
> at bloody prompts to make sure that the command i'm typing is going to
> box "foo" and not "bar".

 I got sick of that years ago, and changed the prompt on the box to set
the hostname and user name in the PS1, and in the titlebar of the window
(just in case). Well worth doing.

Kate

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    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software


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