On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote:
On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your
ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash
shells. (This is something which I have learnt today :-)
So attempting to set PS1 in /etc/profile and inherit it everywhere
isn't going to work.
OK, thanks for the explanation.
I still think you should consider using 'xterm -ls' in system.XWinrc,
because I think most users are going to want to see their usual prompt
when they start an xterm.
I agree that users should get their usual prompt in an Xterm.
This is not a problem limited to X, though: You can demonstrate it just by
doing 'bash -c bash'
I believe a solution would be to move the PS1 setting code from /etc/profile
to /etc/bash.bashrc, causing it to be set for all interactive shells.
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