From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 20:56:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5745F37B722 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3D6FA837; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:56:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAD2540E; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:56:25 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:56:25 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Marius Vincent Cc: freeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Thrashing Bash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Marius Vincent wrote: > and Incase my box get screwed up and the shell is not there i get locked out > of root. Not really. I f you use su -m you keep whatever shell your using and if you boot single user mode you are prompted for the shell to use. > Now how do i get PS1=blah to export to the terminal? > I tried to create a .bash_profile and added the PS1=blah into it and it does > not work. I dont use bash but you may be after bash --login. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message