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12-Sep-2006, 12:33 PM #1
undo a prank
I am a newbie to Linux (Debian) and i accidently left my machine open while i got some coffee. A boss to teach me a lesson has changed something where when i do a "ls" it comes out as if i typed in ps. along with a few other commands that it does the same, and on top of that where my name should be such as mhylas@blabin: it is now hahaha: .
He said there is a way to undue this but he is not telling me. but he gave me a clue that it is in the enviroment. Any ideas. Need help to gain respect.
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12-Sep-2006, 12:47 PM #2
figured out the one part , that it was a allias , now the only thing is getting my name right at the prompt. I was thinking its some where in the proc dir?
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19-Sep-2006, 12:57 AM #3
Most of those things are set in your home directory .bash_profile and .bashrc.

Looks for the PS1= and PS2= statements, they set your prompts.
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