Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt

[wiqd]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:15 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:
> Hello!
>
Hi Charles,

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

Put this into /home/user/.profile

PS1="[\u@\h \W]$ "

and this into /root/.profile

PS1="[\u@\h \W]# "

And all should be fine.

> Charles
>
>
>
Greg

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