Sincere thanks to all who replied. The problem was indeed that bash was not installed as the default shell (I was a bit surprised by that!). Using "chsh" to install bash did the trick.
regards, Robert Storey > On Friday 20 December 2002 01:46 am, Robert Storey wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Forgive me, I'm new to Debian. On other distros I've used, I > > can control the behavior (somewhat) of Xterm with the > > settings in.bashrc, but that doesn't seem to work in Debian. > > Specifically, two things: > > > > 1) The prompt. Under Debian, the Xterm prompt is: sh-2.05a$ > > How can it make it obey this setting: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' > > > > 2) Xterm ignores my settings in .bashrc and /etc/profiles > > concerning aliases. For example, I would like to add these > > settings: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
