Roni Rolle Laukkarinen on Nostr: A while back I was super tired and had too many command line windows open. I typed in ...

A while back I was super tired and had too many command line windows open. I typed in the wrong command on the wrong server. This caused system being partly broken, because I accidentally upgraded a held-back package. Eventually got it fixed by recompiling that certain package, but it contained a module compiled by an external party, so had to wait and not restart any services for 24 hours.

Happens to all of us sometimes.

However, what I learned is I should finally really change the color of each prompt for every single server I have. I have dozens of them. I'm lazy that way, I just customize my local prompt but rarely do it on production servers, despite how easy it is.

For Mastodon my prompt is deep purple, like it should.

```bash
PS1="\[\e[38;5;141m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]"
```

Here are my other prompts, feel free to use these colors in your .bashrc:

```bash
PS1="\[\e[38;5;99m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Light Purple
PS1="\[\e[38;5;141m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Pastel Purple
PS1="\[\e[38;5;183m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Lavender
PS1="\[\e[38;5;217m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Light Pink
PS1="\[\e[38;5;216m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Peach
PS1="\[\e[38;5;117m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Sky Blue
PS1="\[\e[38;5;159m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Soft Cyan
PS1="\[\e[38;5;121m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Mint Green
PS1="\[\e[38;5;229m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Soft Yellow
PS1="\[\e[38;5;210m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[0m\]" # Light Coral
```

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