Login scripts?

punkrockguy318 · 2004-03-07 18:08:43

Where can I find login scripts? Like commands executed when login (ie like getting fortune to display on login)

dp · 2004-03-07 18:16:01

punkrockguy318 wrote:

Where can I find login scripts? Like commands executed when login (ie like getting fortune to display on login)

/home/yourUser/.bashrc

is run every time you login a console or xterm

simply add as last line "fortune" and it will give you a fortune every login :-)

or if you want something more nice:

install "cowsay" pkg (pacman -Sy cowsay) and then add this line ... looks really nice :-)

fortune -s | cowsay -f tux

punkrockguy318 · 2004-03-07 18:17:50

also: how can I change the prompt?
[name@arch /]$ the colors and stuff?

dp · 2004-03-07 18:18:51

the output would look like this:

 ______________________________________ 
/ Murphy's Law of Research:            
|                                      |
| Enough research will tend to support |
 your theory.                         /
 -------------------------------------- 
   
    
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //    
     (|     | )
    /'_   _/`
    ___)=(___/

dp · 2004-03-07 18:20:12

punkrockguy318 wrote:

also: how can I change the prompt?
[name@arch /]$ the colors and stuff?

also in this file:

PS1='[u@h W]$ '

is the prompt

dp · 2004-03-07 18:21:14

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … hlight=ps1

for examples

dp · 2004-03-07 18:23:57

the color codes are the same as for /etc/issue or any console-color thing ... have a look at
http://daperi.home.solnet.ch/linux/arch/index.html
in the middle of the page the 2 tables for all codes available for coloring

the syntacs is easy:

no color ... 33[01;31m this text should be in color 31 and style 01 33[0m and now again reset to no color, style 0

note that 33 means the same as the "escape"-character in issue i mentioned on my site

punkrockguy318 · 2004-03-07 19:24:30

Wow! Thanks a lot! I love how you guys always help, and fast replies too!

dp · 2004-03-07 22:10:08

you're welcome ...
by the way: how did you set your prompt? may i ask for your new PS1 ? :-)

here another nice example i use on my machine:

PS1='33[34;01mu33[34;0m@33[31;0mh:l33[34;01m[W]33[32;01m#:33[00;01m'

u = user
h = hostname
l = consolenumber
W = path (last)
# = command-number in this console (very usefull, if you want to quote the output and speak about it)

(EDITED: changed the code-format to 33[${color};${style}m)

punkrockguy318 · 2004-03-07 22:26:45

user:

PS1='{33[00;34mu33[0m@h W}$ '

root:

PS1='[33[0;31mu33[0m@h W]$ '

I'll add more later!

dp · 2004-03-07 23:10:41

... with style "5" you can make the prompt blinking :-) ... can be fun for root having something like

PS1='[33[5;31mu33[0m@h W]$ '

(but this is really playing around ... nothing to do with "ergonomics at work" )

punkrockguy318 · 2004-03-08 01:33:53

dp wrote:

... with style "5" you can make the prompt blinking :-) ... can be fun for root having something like
PS1='[33[5;31mu33[0m@h W]$ '
(but this is really playing around ... nothing to do with "ergonomics at work" )

Hmm.. the 5 only gives it a gray bg... Any ideas?

dp · 2004-03-08 06:35:16

punkrockguy318 wrote:

dp wrote:
... with style "5" you can make the prompt blinking :-) ... can be fun for root having something like
PS1='[33[5;31mu33[0m@h W]$ '
(but this is really playing around ... nothing to do with "ergonomics at work" )
Hmm.. the 5 only gives it a gray bg... Any ideas?

hmm ... maybe 33[31;05m ? (sorry, just edited your line directly) ... it's always a good idea to specify first the color and then the style and to give the leading 0 for the style code

.. the other thing with blinking is that it works only on some consoles (in the VC but not with all framebuffers and also not with xterm but works fine in konsole)

slyski · 2004-03-08 13:58:49

if you are talking about the console colors themselves and not just the prompt take a look at setterm

type setterm at the prompt for list of options
there is a man page also on it

slyski

hypermegachi · 2004-07-27 19:08:36

is there a way to randomize which cow is talking?

farphel · 2004-07-27 21:12:47

Ok... So I was bored...

Add this to your .bashrc to get the random cow file and fortune output.

function randcowfile() {
  # where do the cow files live?
  #
  COWFILES='/usr/share/cows'

  file_list=(`ls -l $COWFILES | awk '{ print $9 }'`)
  num_files=`expr ${#file_list[@]} + 1`
  randex=`expr $RANDOM / ( 32768 / $num_files )`
  cowfile=`basename ${file_list[$randex]} .cow`
  echo $cowfile
}

fortune -s | cowsay -f `randcowfile`

hypermegachi · 2004-07-27 22:08:17

thanks! works like a charm.

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