Greetings. This is my first post to the OpenBSD community, so please let me know if I'm in the wrong list, this is just too basic or any other faux pas.
Under the default ksh, the default /root/.profile and indeed a completely fresh 4.8 install, adding the following line to /root/.profile does not work as expected: export PS1='$PWD ' The login shell is '/root ', which makes sense to me, but all child shells get the default '# ', despite PS1 being exported. Even more strange, this doesn't happen when PS1 contains '\$' or '#'; it looks like the hash must be in the root prompt. Non-root users are not affected by the equivalent restriction (PS1 may not contain '\$' or '$'). Could anyone point out why this happens? Can this behavior be modified? Coming from a fresh install, there is no /etc/profile or /root/.kshrc. Thank you in advance for your help. Cheers, Ezequiel
