Hello,

My host gives me Jailshell access, which seems to work quite well for me, I just don't like the prompt, which currently looks like this:

-jailshell 2.05$

I wish it would rather tell me something more useful, such as the host and current directory names.

I can change it, by seting the variable PS1, but the change is not permanent (when I return, I get the good old jailshell prompt).

This is a CPanel host, by the way.

I've done some reading and found that the PS1 variable can be set in some bash script file, supposedly one of these:

~/.bashrc
~/.bash_profile
/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc

So I figured I should find such a file in my environment, which I would edit to get the prompt I want. But I can't find any of these files at all, so I'm a bit lost now...

Does anyone have a clue how I can customize my prompt?

I found the answer on the CPanel forum:
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=32170

In /home/user create .profile and add something like PS1="[\u:\w:\t\s]$ " this will allow for changing of prompt in jailshell.