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rjw8703
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

What does this do "export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"" ?

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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

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rjw8703 wrote:

What does this do "export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"" ?

it adds (chroot) in front of the

Code:

livecd <directoryname>#

statement, so that you can easily see which console is chrooted and which is not
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

PS1 is the environment variable for you bash prompt and you can manually set it up. Here's more about it http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html

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Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:07 am Post subject:

Thanks Cloudbolt and naturegirl for your answers.

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