On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Krings wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> Thank you very much for your mail. If i type PS1='\h:\w\$' in
directly and
> press enter, it works fine. If I put that into my etc/profile file
> commenting the old PS1 line, it works as long as i do not logout. After
the
> next login it is like before again.
>
> Ray Olszewski wrote me to add these lines:
>
> PS1='\h:\w$'
> export PS1
>
> This doesn't work at all, neither entering it directly nor
putting it in
> the file. Basically it is the same as you told me and i guess he just
> forgot the \ in front of the $ (i tried both versions, none works).
That's strange. It works for me, except the last character is always a
$. I didn't tell you to export it because the export is already in the
initialization file.
>
> Any idea why ? Any idea for another way ?
>
<From a casual look at my Cheap Bytes RedHat 5.0 rpmlist it looks like
RedHat changes both the filename and the manpage, and man bash _should_
tell you (near the end, in FILES) that it uses /etc/bashrc for
system-wide initialization. Try changing PS1 there before you panic. :-)
I make an rpmlist by cd'ing to the RPMS dir on a RH cd and doing
rpm -qilp * >~/rpmlist
That give me a file with the package descriptions and file list that's
very useful for finding my way around RedHat.
> I'm running RedHat 5.2 and have only root as user.
>
Make a non-root user and get in the habit of using it when you don't
need to administer the system. Please. :-). It is fairly easy for
root to do a lot of damage with a small typo.
> Thanx and Greez >
> Dave
Lawson
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