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From: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
To: Hans N Gruber <hounddog@juno.com>
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Subject: Re: su warning
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> Warning: Imported Path Contains Relative Components.

I'd guess it does that if any part of the path doesn't start with a /

> P.S. While I'm at it...to get my Bash prompt to display current working
> directory what is the proper syntax? I've tried everything I've found so
> far. It is my understanding from reading the man pages that I should
> create a .bash_login (as opposed to .bashrc) but I cannot get the promt
> working.

This is what I use:
 PS1="\u@\h:\$PWD\\$ "
It gives you:
 user@host:/directory$
 root@host:/directory#

Put it in your .bash_profile. "login" is for csh-like shells, "profile" is
for sh-like shells. 

Try "man bash" for more info.