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 different machines for the PS1 setting, and copy it to the one that's missing, a good place to start is "grep -r PS1 /etc/*"
On 8/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], I see no > differences. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
