On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 06:37:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> Sincere thanks to all who replied.
>
> The problem was indeed that bash was not installed as the default
> shell (I was a bit surprised by that!). Using "chsh" to install
> bash did the trick.
I'm fairly sure it is. Even if you ins
On Friday 20 December 2002 08:46, Robert Storey wrote:
> 2) Xterm ignores my settings in .bashrc and /etc/profiles concerning aliases. For
>example, I would like to add these settings:
Beware, you are confusing things a bit.
It's not xterm which wants to read your .bashrc
xterm can start a shell
Hi,
Your lines are too long.
* Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-20 08:46]:
>1) The prompt. Under Debian, the Xterm prompt is: sh-2.05a$
>How can it make it obey this setting: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
You should set this in ~/.bashrc. Don't forget to export it, though
I'm not even positive th
On Friday 20 December 2002 01:46 am, Robert Storey wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Forgive me, I'm new to Debian. On other distros I've used, I can
> control the behavior (somewhat) of Xterm with the settings in
> .bashrc, but that doesn't seem to work in Debian. Specifically, two
> things:
>
> 1) The promp
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