[Bug 497765] Re: Karmic does not set PS1 correctly in /etc/profile

2011-07-07 Thread latimerio
Thanks for the clarification, I got the point now. I commented my /etc/profile as shown below so that also non-experts understand what it is about (and maybe become experts too some day). My general issue of looking into this was the default value of PS1 which obfuscates the input line if I am t

[Bug 497765] Re: Karmic does not set PS1 correctly in /etc/profile

2011-07-06 Thread gzarkadas
This is not a bug, but the intended behaviour. ** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => gzarkadas (gzarkadas) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 497765] Re: Karmic does not set PS1 correctly in /etc/profile

2011-07-06 Thread gzarkadas
This is **not** a bug. The $PS1 variable is set when sh / bash are started as interactive shells (that is shells that allow the user to enter commands and view the output). So the test checks whether the shell is interactive and if it is executes code that is intended for interactive shells only.

[Bug 497765] Re: Karmic does not set PS1 correctly in /etc/profile

2009-12-17 Thread latimerio
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36903748/Dependencies.txt -- Karmic does not set PS1 correctly in /etc/profile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt