From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 06 Sep 1999 - 11:51:12 IST
"Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin)" spoke thusly:
>Is there a (fairly easy) way to add colour to the prompt in both colour
>xterms (and the Gnome Xterm) and on the Console.
>
>I'd like root to have a red prompt while I'm either logged on as root at the
>console or su'd in an xterm. This'll help stop me doing Stoopid Stuff(TM)
>like at the weekend (we won't go into it here...) again.
if you use su, always use su - to log in as root - that way root's
.bashrc gets sourced.
then add this to root's .bashrc:
export PS1='\[\033[31m\][\u at domain \h \W]\$\[\033[m\] '
enjoy.
kevin
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