hostname along with home dir name

[Shivkumar]

Hey Guys,

How to set home directory so that it can show hostname along with home directory name ?

Thanks,
Shiv

[MarkSyder · Accepted solution]

I assume you're talking about the PS1 prompt:

PS1="$(hostname):\$PWD> "

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Fred Ruffet]

I would add to Mark's answer :

. set this in a profile script such as /etc/profile if you want every user to have this setting (It shall already have a PS1 setting, just replace it).

. Do not forget to export this variable. IT can be done with "export PS1" line in the same profile script.

Regards,

Fred

[Amit Agarwal_1]

You need to export the PS1 variable in your environemnt.

Add the following line at the bottom of yoru .profile file

export PS1="$(hostname):\$PWD$ "

[Steven E. Protter]

here is mine. There are a few extras:

PS1=`date -u +%c `:`echo $LOGNAME@``hostname`' $PWD
[!#] '


SEP

[Robert Bennett_3]

A little variation on the theme:

PS1=`whoami`'@'`/usr/bin/hostname`': $PWD # '; export PS1

[Suraj Singh_1]

I tend to write the following in my /etc/profile (at the end of this file):

ID=`id -u`
HN=`uname -n`
UN=`who am i|awk '{print $1}'`
if [ $ID -eq 0 ]
then
PS1='[$UN@$HN $PWD]# '
else
PS1='[$UN@$HN $PWD]$ '
fi

Regards

[Eknath]

Hi Shiv,

Add following line in your .profile
export PS1=[`hostname`]'$PWD >' this will give prompt like this
[hp371-10]/var/adm > (where hp371-10 is hostname and /var/adm is pwd). also you can customize this per your need.

cheers!!!
eknath

[Ganesha Sridhara]

The following entry in your .profile:
export PS1=`whoami`"@"`hostname`'$PWD'"->"

will give out like:
ganeshs@myserver/home/ganeshs->

----------------------------

export PS1=`hostname`'$PWD'"->"

will give out like:
myserver/home/ganeshs->


Regards
Ganesha Sridhara

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Enough have been provided in above posts so I would suggest exporting history for indivisual users. From my /etc/profile on all my servers for achiving this alongwith your original question.

export PS1=`hostname`:'$PWD>>'
export HISTFILE="/var/hp/hp/$LOGNAME"
export HISTSIZE=1000

HTH,
Devender

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi Shivkumar ,
for fantasy just try and see what happens;
:-)
PS1="`tput bold`$(hostname):`tput rmso`\$PWD\#"
Good Luck,