Bash Prompt in an XTerm

[Travis Cole <tcole@iname.com>]

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I just switched from Red Hat 4.2 to Debian 1.3.1 and I am now realizing how much
Red Hat really hides you from things.

I don't like the default setting for the bash prompt Debian give you and I want
to change it.  I edited my /etc/profile and added the line:

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

So my prompt looks like"

[tcole@atheist tcole]$

tcole is the user, atheist is the computers name and the second tcole is the
last part of the working dir.
This works fine when I am at the console as a normal user but as root I only
get:

atheist#

and In XFree86 it gives me:

bash-2.00$

I can live with the way root's prompt as I try to use root very little but I
would like to change the prompt in my XTerms.

What file would I edit to do this?  I tried adding this to my .bash_profile
and looked through the bash man page.  I would also like to make these changes
global.

And help would be cool.  Thanks.
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E-Mail: Travis Cole <tcole@iname.com> -- <tcole@methow.com>
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Date: 21-Jul-97
Time: 21:02:35
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