Re: Simple little basic config questions

[Kent West]

Haines Brown wrote:

In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little
basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which
I operate at this point from console. 

1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in 
  /etc/profile, but that only affects user, not root.
 

This is the place; however, users can over-ride this by creating their 
own ~/.profile file. I believe a typical Debian setup does not have 
personal .profiles in users' home directories by default, but there is 
one in root's home directory by default.

2. I had placed the command "setterm -blank 0" in RedHat's
  /etc/rc.d/rc.local to block screen blanking while running in
  console. Debian does not use that file. What is its equivalent?
Sorry; can't address this one.

3. My usual practice is to avoid xdm and boot to a text login
  prompt. To do this, in rc2.d I belive I edited the symlink to the
  xdm program, renaming "S99xdm ->..." to "K99xdm ->...". But in
  debian I get a beep when I try. Am I imagining I once edited the
  name of a symlink? Can't one do it in debian?
Yes, you can do it in Debian. I'm not sure when you're getting the beep; 
is it when you're trying to rename the file, or when the script runs, or 
what? However, if you don't ever want xdm to run, I'd suggest you just 
remove it:
   apt-get --purge remove xdm
You can always reinstall it later if you want it:
   apt-get install xdm

There are other ways to defeat xdm also, such as renaming the actual 
script (not just the symlink) in /etc/init.d, or by placing an "exit 0" 
as the first executable line in the script.

--
Kent


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