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="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ > > which is wrong, since "$" appears in place of "#", as though my syntax > of PS1 were incorrect, but I don't see that it is. > > How am I to clean up all this? I'll be grateful for all suggestions. > Put this into /home/user/.profile PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]$ " and this into /root/.profile PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]# " And all should be fine. > Charles > > > Greg -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
