Rick Macdonald said: > Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current > directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have > seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
it does, unless you changed the default behavior. on every debian system I have used the root prompt shows the current working directory in bash (not sure about other shells). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]