On 03/28/2012 04:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
the promt in linux supports colors since long ago
which is smarter than guess by error messages that
it was a root command happily with not enough
permissions
/root/.basrhc (red prompt):
PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
~/.bashrc (green prompt)
PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
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i use the follwoing schema since many years
RED: root on production servers
ORANGE: root on my machines
YELOW: root on backup.machines
GREEN: my user
LIGHTBLUE: buildusers
DARKBLUE: vm hosts
no, i have no good documentation, i googled around
for colors i searched :-)
I'm aware of BASH's use of colors, but, I'm not always at a console that
displays colors. (I've not found an Android app that will display them
on my Galaxy Tab for instance.)
Besides, I think a healthy dose of paranoia is not a bad thing. If it
works for you, that's great. I've found that it's not always good to
rely on things like that if you have to access consoles from odd devices
like mobile phones.
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Mark Haney
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