On 2006-10-19 11:48, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW writes: > > There is an alternative uid 0 user called toor which you can use if you > > want > > to use bash as root. OTOH hand there is a school of thought that you > > shouldn't be too comfortable as root. > > My thanks to all. On all the systems in question, bash > ends up on the same partition as root, but the points are > well-taken. > > One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in > the root prompt. In the .cshrc file is a string > > set prompt="\007\!# " > > I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual > Control-G and even a \a. All produce an attempt to render a bell > but what is sent to the remote terminal is ^G1# > as in the actual ASCII characters ^ and G. > > I am not sure what to do to correct this problem as I do not get > it in bash. A \a or \007 is sent literally.
This is easy to do with tcsh: set prompt = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%/%# ' Note the %{ ... %} around the literal ^G character :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"