Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpsal2!morrell From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Info on BRL shell Message-ID: <14670005@hpsal2.HP.COM> Date: 22 Sep 88 18:53:40 GMT References: <406@marob.MASA.COM> Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino Lines: 17 / hpsal2:comp.unix.wizards / roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) / 11:48 am Sep 21, 1988 / davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > Please tell me that I'm not the only one who feels competent to decide > how I set my prompt, for root or anyone else. Sorry Bill, but I agree that putting a '#' at the end of the superuser prompt is A Good Thing. I've often got a half dozen shells running in different windows; it's nice to be reminded which of them has been superuserized. ---------- I agree totally with Bill. All the superusers at my machine follow the "#" convention, but it is VERY much against the UN*X philosophy for a shell to enforce such a thing. Besides, how does it actually do it? Does it check PS1 before each prompt? Sounds like a lot of overhead. Michael