mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) (02/26/88)
In article <392@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes: > > Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ] The best joke to play on a novice: PS1="login: " -- Mikel Manitius mikel@codas.att.com
rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers) (02/27/88)
In article <3002@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes: >In article <392@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes: >> >> Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ] > >The best joke to play on a novice: > >PS1="login: " We once had a novice who insisted he had to be root to do his job. We didn't want to risk machine integrity, so we made him a non-root user and set PS1="# ". Took him three weeks and scores of temper tantrums before he looked at his .profile! ____________ _____________________________________________________ | | U U | > > > > > > > > ...!rutgers! | U U | ^ ^ v | U Kentucky U K K | ^ ^ ...!gatech!mcnc!< < uvaarpa! | U Wildcats U K K | ^ ^ v v | U U K K | ^ ...!sri-unix!hplabs!< < ece-csc! | U U KK | ^ v v | UUUUUU K K | ...!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ofc!rogers | K K |-----------------------------------------------------| --------- K K | OR JUST TRY hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM | HL Rogers |_____________________________________________________| "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you ever find time to do it over." - from a wise sage. Go Big Blue!
ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) (03/01/88)
In article <3002@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes: >In article <392@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes: >> >> Perhaps I didn't get the joke either, but 'set prompt = "."' [ ... ] > >The best joke to play on a novice: > >PS1="login: " >-- > Mikel Manitius > mikel@codas.att.com Now THAT one I like. -- - Kilroy ram@lscvax.UUCP 'Just what cowpatch is Lyndonville, Vermont in anyway?' *** Can't deal, &CRASH