From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 17:25:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05981 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA04347; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:54:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980416095445.R1090@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:54:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Keith Woodworth , freebsd-questions Subject: bash (was: rlog) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Woodworth on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:37:54PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 23:37:54 -0700, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > ok whats rlog? I read the man pages and i sort of see what it does but > not really. I wonder. It's so far from what you think it is that you must have different man pages. rlog displays the log entries of the RCS source code revision control system. Unless you're a programmer writing large projects, you don't need it. > Basically I have a shell account on a bsdi system and when I log in my > shell is rlog, but its bash really. rlog isn't a shell. You might be confusing it with rlogin, a program which establishes a network connection. But your question sounds like a bash question. > I want to setup some stuff to customize my prompt etc but nothing I seem > to do under .bash_profile or .profile seem to work. I have copied over > the stuff I use on my FbSD machines but guess there is a system wide > config file that sets things up but dont know what it might be or if I > can even change them. > > anyone have an answer? I know its bsdi but I figure it is a *bsd question..? It's a UNIX question. Try putting them in .bashrc. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message