x="$PS1"
echo "x is $x"

put this into your ~/.bashrc
export PS1=”\w \\$ ” #note doublebackslash$
—- test —-
[user@redhat5 ~]$ export PS1=”\w \\$ ”
~ $ su
Password:
~ #

PS1=”\n\[\e[0;36m\]┌─[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;33m\]\u\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;36m\] @ \[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;33m\]\h\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;36m\]]─[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;36m\]]\[\e[0;36m\]─[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;31m\]\!\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;36m\]]\[\e[0m\]\n\[\e[0;36m\]└─[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;37m\]\$\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;36m\]]› \[\e[0m\]”

How do you like this one?

The general idea may be the same (length of prompt of bash). Either way, not a bad read (the whole document I mean).

1 – I know with bash you can put newlines into prompts and it works ok. By putting \n in the prompt (just like in C and other languages).
2 – Did I see ksh ? You’re using kornshell then ? It’s been over 10 years since I’ve used it i think. Close to if not.
3 – What IS the actual issue ? What is limited ? Are characters not being displayed right, or what ?

I think though that this should probably be addressed elsewhere; as much as I’d like to help I don’t want to turn this into a support place – not my blog to do that. Suggestion then: find a forum that may help (maybe even f-secure would have ideas for all I know).

Kind regards.

on LINUX,:
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>Now is the time for all good men to c >
ksh: Now: not found
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –> all good men to come to the aid of t +
ksh: Now: not found
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>me to the aid of their party! now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party!

Could very well be relevant.

I can’t say I know for sure but what I wonder is:

echo $TERM ?
and what is stty -a (for rows and cols) show on the others (Solaris etc) ? I am pretty sure stty is there though it’s been a long time since i’ve touched BSD, Solaris or any other Unix derivative besides Linux.

Otherwise all I can say is it’s not Linux itself that’s doing it – it may be a setting in that system though. Unfortunately I don’t have access to a windows machine so I can’t really test that part (the client).

For reference though, here’s my stty -a output (on a 24″ screen) – my main machine:
speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ;
eol2 = ; swtch = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -cdtrdsr
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc ixany imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke

and on my server (also linux, different distro) and smaller monitor:

rows and cols is different (as I changed font yesterday) but it was before that change actually the same as above.

But indeed on the console font differences can change the amount of rows and cols.

F-Secure. Hmm. I cannot remember if they have a Linux client or not but I’ll check. I unfortunately only use Xterm or the console itself.

Crazy idea: what if you start a new shell (e.g., su – user) ?
One other thought: screen shot of this phenomenon ? I can easily imagine this isn’t being interpreted on my part correctly.

/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>cat .bash_profile
# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>cat .profile
ME=”whoami”
MACHINE=”uname -n”
#stty erase
set -o vi

#PS1=”$PWD \n
#whoami: $MACHINE –> ”
PS1=’$PWD:$USER@$HOSTNAME –>’
#PS1=’$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD –>’
/home/jpcochr:jpcochr@VMAMN14GLBSMG4 –>

Actually, I'm not sure how the font could affect this, I use the exact same terminal, ssh to numerous UNIX or SUN servers and the prompts work just fine, but when I'm on a LINUX jump server all I can get is 25 characters, period, regardless of the font. WHY is LINUX limiting the prompt to 25 characters, Why can't I just keep typing and have the prompt go all the way to the end of the screen???

Summary is this:

Firstly, look in /lib/kbd/consolefonts
Next, look at setfont(8)
You can use it like: setfont -C $(tty)

Lastly if that is one you like, then set SYSFONT to that (minus the extension of .psfu.gz) in /etc/sysconfig/i18n

Hope that helps (and that the hour it is here didn’t get me).