Stephen, What's your /etc/hosts file look like? Mine is: 127.0.0.1 localhost mymachine
Maybe Tom's previous post (quoted below) is what we both need in /etc/skel/.bashrc? [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile However, all seems to work fine with how I have it now- I was informed on the Gentoo forum to do what I have done. Hmmm. just looked at my /etc/skel/.bashrc, and I forgot I had added this line, when I was figuring out the cfg-update replacement for Gentoo's etc-update. This looks relevant to what we're talking about, but it didn't change my xterm prompt at all. # The following is added by me to source /etc/profile [ -f /etc/profile ] && source /etc/profile Come to think of it, I was having trouble getting x to open an xxdiff window from an xterminal after put the cfg-update perl script into /usr/local/bin, and the author of the script advised me to add that line to /etc/skel/.bashrc, and it fixed my problem. Robert On Saturday 25 October 2003 7:51 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Robert and folks > > # echo "source /etc/profile" >>/home/satimis/.bashrc > > NOW becomes > As ROOT > mymachine root # > > As USER > [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis $ > > How to change them to; > As ROOT > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > > As USER > [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ > > B.R. > Stephen > > Robert Crawford wrote: > >Try placing this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file- it worked for me. > > > >source /etc/profile > > > >This will also show the current directory if you cd to another directory, > >instead of just the bash-2.05b$ prompt. > > > >Robert Crawford > > > >On Saturday 25 October 2003 1:06 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > >>Hi all folks, > >> > >>Gentoo 1.4 > >>========== > >> > >>On KDE Konsole window > >> > >>As ROOT, it prompts > >>mymachine root # > >> > >>not as > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > >> > >> > >>As USER > >>bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ > >> > >>Kindly advise how to change them back > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >>B.R. > >>Stephen Liu > >> > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
