Hi, I'm new to debian, but not to linux. (experimenting with lenny...) This is the question I asked myself while seeing various prompts after I thought I had customised them. Near as I can tell, there are three different scripts which fiddle with the default bash prompt:
/etc/profile /etc/bashrc ~/.bashrc I edited each one to replace the setting of PS1 with something like: PS1="<name of file>:$PS1" Now, logging in in different ways as different users: Regular user on ttyn: etc/profile:bash-3.2$ Root user on ttyn: ~/.bashrc:etc/profile:-bash-3.2# {why does root's bashrc get sourced, but not user's?} **************************************************************************** Regular user in emacs shell: ~/.bashrc(nocolor):etc/bashrc:bash-3.2$ Root in emacs shell: ~/.bashrc:etc/bashrc:~/.bashrc:etc/profile:bash-3.2# {why is root's .bashrc read twice? Why no leading - on original root prompt? Why does /etc/profile get sourced for root but not for user?} **************************************************************************** Regular user in xterm: ~/.bashrc(xterm):~/.bashrc(nocolor):etc/bashrc:bash-3.2$ Root in xterm: ~/.bashrc:etc/bashrc:~/.bashrc:etc/bashrc:bash-3.2# {I guess no questions here, other than, again, why does root's .bashrc get sourced two different times??} If these aren't completely stupid questions, can anyone shed some light? TIA, Scott Swanson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org