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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 2 line prompt Post 22937 by RTM on Thursday 13th of June 2002 10:23:56 AM
Old 06-13-2002
That did not work with ksh on either HP-UX or Solaris

[myaccount@myserver]:/export/home/myaccount
$ PS1="Hello \n$"
Hello n$
Hello n$uname -a
HP-UX myserver B.11.00 A 9000/889 470662331 two-user license
Hello n$

Solaris 2.6

[root@server]:/etc
# echo $PS1
[$USER@$HOSTNAME]:$PWD #
[root@server]:/etc
# PS1="[$USER@$HOSTNAME]:$PWD\n#"
[root@server]:/etc/ftpdn#
 

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SYNCACHE-DRB(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   SYNCACHE-DRB(1)

NAME
syncache-drb - SynCache dRuby object cache server SYNOPSIS
syncache-drb [ options ] [ URI ] DESCRIPTION
syncache-drb starts a Distributed Ruby server providing a SynCache::Cache object. SynCache::Cache is a thread-safe time-limited object cache with flexible replacement strategy. OPTIONS
URI A URI with druby: schema that the DRb server binds to, default is druby://localhost:9000 --help Display usage information and quit. --ttl SECONDS Time-to-live value for cache entries, default is 24 hours. --size ENTRIES Maximum number of objects in cache, default is 10000. --flush-delay SECONDS Rate-limit flush operations. If less than that number of seconds has passed since last flush, next flush will be delayed. Default is no rate limit. --user USER Run as USER if started as root. Default is nobody. --error-log ERROR_LOG_PATH File to write errors to. Default is /dev/null. When run as root, the file is chowned to USER:adm. --debug Enable debug mode. If an error log is specified with --error-log, all messages will be sent there instead of syslog. --pidfile PATH Path to pidfile. By default, pidfile is created under /var/run/syncache-drb/ when run as root, or under $TMPDIR otherwise. Location should be writeable by USER. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko <angdraug@debian.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this doc- ument under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 or later. SYNCACHE-DRB(1)
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