Bash Shell Prompt change after 11.3

[Rolfieo]

I have just upgraded my FreeNAS 11.2-U7 machines to 11.3-U1

What i noticed is that when i now connect to SSH, my shell promt is different for my account.


NAS% echo $PS1
NAS%
NAS% ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
4728 0 Ss 0:00.01 -bash (bash)
5148 0 R+ 0:00.00 ps
NAS% bash
[USERNAME@NAS ~]$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
4728 0 Ss 0:00.01 -bash (bash)
5149 0 S 0:00.00 bash
5150 0 R+ 0:00.00 ps
[USERNAME@NAS ~]$ echo $PS1
[\u@\h \w]\$

So uses bash, but if i start another bash shell, it shows correct. As it was always USERNAME@HOSTNAME.

I have checked my account, but it still has the bash as the shell, both in the GUI and and /etc/password file.

I could not find anything in the releasenotes that could point to this.

Anobody has some ideas?

 

[RichR]

I got a brand new FreeNAS mini, and it's doing the exact same thing.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Probably a difference in bashrc vs bash_profile. Bashrc gets sourced when you typed bash. Bash_profile gets sourced when you log in.

 

[RichR]

...neither exists (at least in mine)

 

[SweetAndLow]

...neither exists (at least in mine)

yeah that's the problem. create a bashrc or bash_profile for your user that you are logging in with. If you don't it uses the system default.

 

[RichR]

Just to document, with about 8 years of using FreeNAS/TrueNAS, I've never had to do this before.

I totally get that it's not a big deal, but it's an undocumented change (at least not documented in the release notes that I could find).

For future folks that may find this thread useful, FreeNAS 11.3U2 (on a brand new MINI-3.0-E (I'd assume the same for FreeNAS regardless of hardware). In order to get your prompt to "look the same" as it used to, with "[user@hostname pwd]$"

Code:

    Go to your home directory.
nano .bash_profile
    (add a line)
PS1="[\u@\h \w]\$"
    (save then quit [control +o, then control +x])
. .bash_profile
    or
source .bash_profile
   
    log out, log in

 

[Da Fox]

Thanks for the pointers. To fix it for all users at once without requiring everyone to do this themselves:

Code:

--- /etc/profile.template       2020-06-08 17:52:32.618667044 +0200
+++ /conf/base/etc/profile.template     2020-06-08 20:22:33.522385125 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 PAGER=less;     export PAGER
 BLOCKSIZE=K;    export BLOCKSIZE

+PS1="[\u@\h \w]"
 if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then
     set -o emacs
     PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/bin:/usr/local/fusion-io
@@ -36,11 +37,11 @@

     # History file since / is read-only (see #4776)
     HISTFILE=/tmp/.hist$$
-    PS1="`hostname -s`# "
+    PS1="${PS1}# "

     # set ENV to a file invoked each time sh is started for interactive use.
     ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV
 else
-    PS1="`hostname -s`% "
+    PS1="${PS1}$ "
 fi