From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 14:47:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n7c.san.rr.com (dt054n7c.san.rr.com [24.30.152.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE5214BC7 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n7c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05564; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:47:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <382F3C15.3DA235@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:47:49 -0800 From: DougBarton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just minor Bash-prompt problems, but still... References: <99110818305400.00416@machine.beastie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fredrik Carlen wrote: > > Hi there! My /etc/profile contains the following line that applies to the > Bash-prompt (with out the quotes, of course...): > "PS1=">>>\u@\h [\W]\$"' You shouldn't set bash-specific things in /etc/profile, that's the file for all bourne shells, including /bin/sh. Take a look at http://freebsd.simplenet.com/Bash-prompts.txt for more information. Good luck, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message