Default /etc/profile

["LeRoy D. Cressy" <ldc@netaxs.com>]

Hi All,

I've been following the discussion on the default profile
prompt.  When I first loaded Linux on my system I used a
Slackware version packaged with a book a couple of years ago.

Though Slackware had no upgradability at the time, I switched 
debian.  But I noticed that Slackware provided for various
shells in use with the following:

if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/pdksh" -o "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then
 PS1="! $ "
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then
 PS1="%m:%~%# "
elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then
 PS1="$ "
else
 PS1='\h:\w\$ '

This method gives a default prompt for users using different 
shells that read the /etc/profile.  Why couldn't Debian use
a simular approach?

Have a good day :-)
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