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Hello! |
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I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. |
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The prompt string I want to use is |
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PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$ " |
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I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), |
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~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. |
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If I log in as a plain user (moi), I get this: |
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[moi@sirrah moi]$ |
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which is all right. But, if I log in as root, I get the basic default |
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bash-2.05b# . |
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I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was |
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obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files |
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/root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc, writing just PS1 in each. Now, |
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logging in as root, the result is |
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[root@sirrah root]$ |
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which is wrong, since "$" appears in place of "#", as though my syntax |
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of PS1 were incorrect, but I don't see that it is. |
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How am I to clean up all this? I'll be grateful for all suggestions. |
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Charles |
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