Re: Changes to /etc/profile

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 15-Jul-02, 04:44 (CDT), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote: 
> I have already been asked not to export PS1:
> 
> -export PATH PS1
> +export PATH
> 
> so that shells which do not understand bash prompt escapes do not show
> a confusing prompt when invoked on the command line.

Why don't you just fix the real problem, and remove the bogus bits from
the distributed /etc/profile:

- if [ "$BASH" ]; then
-   PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
- else
  if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
    PS1='# '
  else
    PS1='$ '
  fi
- fi

/etc/profile is not bash specific. This kind of hack should be in
/etc/skel/.bash_profile.

Steve


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