> My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the > same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I > added > > export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' > > but this does not solve the problem UNLESS I login as myself and > then type > > bash > > at which point the prompt changes. > > So I seem to have the right environment variable but do I need to > put it in a different file or what?
You need to put it in .bash_profile (RTFM for explaination - it's too complex to condense here, but basically, it looks for .bash_profile first) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
