On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:05:00 -0800 (PST), "nate"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>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

Some weirdness here... My Debian 2.1 single-CD version, using bash,
DIDN'T. I remember quite clearly looking in the docs for how to change
it, failing to find the 'official' method and ending up using
something with `pwd`.

Pigeon


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