Thanks for all the help so far! the user now has a .bashrc and a .profile (copied from /etc/skel) 2008/12/18 Tony Arnold <[email protected]>: > > As well as the advice about bashrc etc., I would also check that the > user has the right shell. Login and type 'echo $SHELL' and make sure > that is bash or dash.
It would appear that the user is setup wrong, as this returns /bin/sh. I do also have root access, and logging in as root (which has a 'normal' activity) returns /bin/bash. How does one change this? > > You also want to see what the terminal type is set to. Type 'echo > $TERM'. If that is set to something like 'dumb' then you may not get > some of the nice features you are looking for. both user and root return xterm > > BTW, what do you get echoed when you press the arrow keys? Nothing or > some random text? Up arrow gives ^[[A, down ^[[B Thanks again! Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
