where to change the default prompt when logging in with CDE

[Lane Frazier_1]

Hello everyone,

I'm running HP-UX 11.0 with CDE. Every user on my system is using the Bourne
shell ($ prompt).

I would like to know where to place the PS1=
parameter so that a user can see who he is logged in as and what directory they
are in.

My main concern is with CDE...I do not know where to place the PS1 parameter..
Currently, it is not in .dtprofile ( I have DTSOURCEPROFILE=TRUE uncommented)
and it is not in etc/profile

Pardon the simple question...I've found this whole CDE issue very hard to
understand and I'm afraid of messing up my CDE login. I'd hate to make a
"simple coesmetic change" and not be able to log back in.

Thanks in advance for your help

[David Rodman_2]

read the man page - sh-bourne
There is a section on invocation and the /etc/profile.

[Sriram Nadiminti]

You can put these two lines in your .profile

NODE="uname -n"
export PS1='$NODE $PWD ##'

The ## is my favourite.. You can put any character.

Good luck

[Alex Glennie]

Just one point, although the .profile is the correct place to put the PS entries : I suspect the various clients such as hp,x and dt terms will only pick these up if you set up the resource *loginShell = True, see man page or run -ls command line option to check.

To set on a per user basis : cd $HOME, vi .Xdefaults
HPterm*loginShell, exit and out CDE and then login back into to review the changes.

[FAZULY MUSTAFFA]

What u can try is to place the PS1 parameter into the .kshrc file. VI the .profile to put the ENV=.kshrc and export the ENV

Try it and see.

[Gavin Hale]

$HOME/.dtprofile is the file which can be used to export environment variables to all CDE subprocesses.

[P V Patel]

Hi,
You will add followind line in .profile file in home directory of user.
export PS1="`uname -n`:`pwd`>"
Regards.
Punjabhai V Patel

[Insu Kim]

Please put those thing in $HOME/.dtprofile.

In the case that you can't find that file in users home directory, just copy /.dtprofile to users directories and modify it.