On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote:
> > The full comment in /etc/bashrc on my machine (RH6.0) is:
> >
> > # For some unknown reason bash refuses to inherit
> > # PS1 in some circumstances that I can't figure out.B
> > # Putting PS1 here ensures that it gets loaded every time.
> > PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
> >
> > Sounds pretty clear to me.
>
> Thanks for quoting it for me. That's exactly the question I'm asking:
> What is the "unknown reason"? Has anybody figured out the circumstances?
> Then maybe I could decide if it's worth while to pull the setting out of
> /etc/bashrc.
>
I don't have an older box handy, but IIRC that comment has been there for
quite a while, it might be an old bug in bash that whomever created the
comment worked around rather than figure out. One could try commenting it
out in /etc/bashrc and see what happens.
Bill Carlson
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