> I recently installed Developer Preview 2, and was pleasantly surprised > when a bash shell greeted me by default. I was wondering, however, if > we may change the default prompt to be something a bit more useful than > just "bash3.2$". One of the first things I do when deploying a copy of > Solaris is to hack the /etc/profile file to make my prompt a bit more > useful, containing my present working directory and the hostname. This > is the default in a lot of Linux distributions, and if the point is to > bridge the gap, I think this would be a good starting point. I'm > including my settings i use in /etc/profile as a starting point, if > anybody is interested.
I'm a little confused - the default user's shell does already have a customized prompt similar to what you're proposing. Are you proposing changing the system-wide default? Or that additional "new" users also get the customized prompt? My current thinking is that we should be providing updated copies of the skeleton files under /etc/skel which are used by useradd(1M) which include the prompt and perhaps other changes but we should not be changing files such as /etc/profile which affects all users. This will be less distruptive to existing users but allow new accounts to have the new user defaults. In addition, since these files are editable a site-administrator can customize them to their heart's content. dsc _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
