\H in PS1 does not display fqdn

[Joe McDonagh]

I've done the same thing, but because I manage a variety of different 
operating systems I set fqdn with facter as a shell variable then use 
that in PROMPT_COMMAND and PS1.

On 12/25/2010 07:03 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> I've noticed that too - I added an export clause to /etc/profile to assign
> the fqdn to a variable and then stick that in my PS1.
>
> Brian
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Joe McDonagh
> <joseph.e.mcdonagh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> \H is supposed to show the FQDN in bash's PS1, however it shows the
>> short hostname. Works perfectly fine in OBSD and RHEL. Any ideas why
>> Ubuntu would be different?
>>
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