How to change name in console?

[fastnet]

Hi everyone, I want to ask, how can i change the name that appear in the console. This is what appear:

daniel@dC9F96C8D:~>

I want to change the dC9F96C8D...how i do this?

Thanks in advance

[thehorse13]

See the hostname man page for your distro.

[fastnet]

Thanks, I found how to do it. But the hostname before was "linux", after I connect the machine to the internet it get "dC9F96C8D". If I change the hostname, Will I have problems with the internet connection?

[gore]

Probably not.

[lumpyporridge]

You can make the prompt to what ever you want, Depending on what shell you are using you will need to change your .shrc (sh)or .cshrc (for c/tcsh shell) or .bash (IIRC as i don't have/use bash) in your home directory. The man page for the shell will tell you more. Here are some fine and fun examples http://www.dotfiles.com/index.php3?cat_id=6

[the_JinX]

I'm guessing you mean changing the bash prompt..

Load of info on that:
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/U...sh-prompts.php
http://www.pantz.org/scripting/shell/colorterm.shtml
http://intmainvoid.nl/?cool+tweaks
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html

In short: export PS1="your code here"

Sequence  	Description
\a 	The ASCII bell character (you can also type \007)
\d 	Date in "Wed Sep 06" format
\e 	ASCII escape character (you can also type \033)
\h 	First part of hostname (such as "mybox")
\H 	Full hostname (such as "mybox.mydomain.com")
\l 	The name of the shell's terminal device (such as "ttyp4")
\j 	The number of processes you've suspended in this shell by hitting ^Z
\n 	Newline
\r 	Carriage return
\s 	The name of the shell executable (such as "bash")
\t 	Time in 24-hour format (such as "23:01:01")
\T 	Time in 12-hour format (such as "11:01:01")
\@ 	Time in 12-hour format with am/pm
\u 	Your username
\v 	Version of bash (such as 2.04)
\V 	Bash version, including patchlevel
\w 	Current working directory (such as "/home/drobbins")
\W 	The "basename" of the current working directory (such as "drobbins")
\! 	Current command's position in the history buffer
\# 	Command number (this will count up at each prompt, as long as you type something)
\$ 	If you are not root, inserts a "$"; if you are root, you get a "#"
\xxx 	Inserts an ASCII character based on three-digit number xxx (replace unused digits with zeros, such as "\007")
\\ 	A backslash
\[ 	This sequence should appear before a sequence of characters that don't move the cursor (like color escape sequences). This allows bash to calculate word wrapping correctly.
\] 	This sequence should appear after a sequence of non-printing characters.

[fastnet]

Hey thanks everyone. Here is the (really) last question: I have enetered int he page dotfiles.com, but how do I edit the bash for having prompt with color (for example)...if you have a link I can use, it will be helpfull

[the_JinX]

For that the LSCOLORS enviroment variable is invented..

once again a lot of info on this:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chuckti...257/index_html
http://www.ss64.com/bash/lsenv.html

in short: export LSCOLORS="your code here"

the code should be type=colour or even type=effect;colour;bgcolour etc..
also a ; between colour and the next type

types

di = directory
fi = file
ln = symbolic link
pi = fifo file
so = socket file
bd = block (buffered) special file
cd = character (unbuffered) special file
or = symbolic link pointing to a non-existent file (orphan)
mi = non-existent file pointed to by a symbolic link (visible when you type ls -l)
ex = file which is executable (ie. has 'x' set in permissions).

colours

0   = default colour
1   = bold
4   = underlined
5   = flashing text
7   = reverse field
31  = red
32  = green
33  = orange
34  = blue
35  = purple
36  = cyan
37  = grey
40  = black background
41  = red background
42  = green background
43  = orange background
44  = blue background
45  = purple background
46  = cyan background
47  = grey background
90  = dark grey
91  = light red
92  = light green
93  = yellow
94  = light blue
95  = light purple
96  = turquoise
100 = dark grey background
101 = light red background
102 = light green background
103 = yellow background
104 = light blue background
105 = light purple background
106 = turquoise background