Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Saturday 25 October 2003 17:06, Tom Hosiawa wrote: ..snip... Try adding this to your file right after this statement , I have it in mine: [ -f /etc/profile ] . /etc/profile I don't know if somebody said this already or if the problem lies somewhere else (to many postings in this list :-), but if you get bash-2.05b$ in xterm, then xterm did not run the login-stuff. if you add in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm the line *VT100*loginShell: true then xterm logins with environment. joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Monday 27 October 2003 9:35 am, Joe Stone wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 17:06, Tom Hosiawa wrote: ..snip... Try adding this to your file right after this statement , I have it in mine: [ -f /etc/profile ] . /etc/profile I don't know if somebody said this already or if the problem lies somewhere else (to many postings in this list :-), but if you get bash-2.05b$ in xterm, then xterm did not run the login-stuff. if you add in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm the line *VT100*loginShell: true then xterm logins with environment. joe People following this thread: I was advised on the Gentoo forum to create an .Xdefaults file in /root, and add only this line: XTerm*loginShell: true Does this accomplish the same thing as joe mentions? It did solve one problem I had with getting x to open a prog (perl script) window from a terminal. Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:20, Kai Lindenberg wrote: Hi Dennis, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 15:01 schrieb Dennis Robertson: This was bugging me, too, so I did what you said. All checked out as per your message except your changes made no difference. I still get the bash login. Can you help some more, please. yes, of course, have you changed both lines in /etc/profile? Yes I have. Can you please send ---code $ grep '$BASH' /etc/profile if [ -n BASH ] if [ -n BASH ] $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession #!/bin/bash --login $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/bash $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 19 20:30 /bin/sh - bash Hope that helps. I'll wait for your response before trying the other useful and welcome suggestions. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi Dennis, Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2003 08:27 schrieb Dennis Robertson: [...] $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/bash try to change this back to #!/bin/sh --login Although /etc/profile gets sourced by Xsession, there is something in the standard installation which resets PS1, all other variables keep their values... Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Can you please send ---code $ grep '$BASH' /etc/profile if [ -n BASH ] if [ -n BASH ] ^^^ There should be a $-sign here (inside quotation-signs, before BASH) $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession #!/bin/bash --login $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/bash $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 19 20:30 /bin/sh - bash Hope that helps. I'll wait for your response before trying the other useful and welcome suggestions. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key id: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at search.keyserver.net[:11371] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hello Kai, Thanks, but that did not work - login is still bash-2.05b$. Having read the bash prompt how-to on Eamon's recommendation and noting Barry's advice I'll use .bashrc. Thanks to all for your help. Dennis On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:16, Kai Lindenberg wrote: Hi Dennis, Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2003 08:27 schrieb Dennis Robertson: [...] $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/bash try to change this back to #!/bin/sh --login Although /etc/profile gets sourced by Xsession, there is something in the standard installation which resets PS1, all other variables keep their values... Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question (PROBLEM SOLVED)
Stephen, Very interesting. I only recently added the mymachine to my /etc/hosts file line, as advised, and it immediately solved other problems of severe misconfiguration I had as shown in xsession.errors, and failure to get a gui for cfg-update from an xterm. Everything works fine now, so I'm not ready to change my entire .bashrc files in order to change the wording of the prompts, until I fully understand the implications. My USER prompt is ([EMAIL PROTECTED] in green, wrc in blue): [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrc $ My ROOT prompt is (mymachine in red, wrc in blue): mymachine wrc # My /etc/hostname file says only mymachine, which was what the Gentoo install docs said to do. My first thought was to say localhost, but I figured I'd better follow the Gentoo docs until I got a running system up, and had more experience with source based distros. Both prompts function normally, and the red root prompt stands out (I have schema set to green on black), so I can live with that. I will study the new .bashrc file you posted, and try and undersand why it was recommended. IIRC, the way your prompts now look is how my Mandrake prompts look (haven't booted to Mandrake in 2 months!- waiting for my 9.2 cd's before doing that, and I've been enjoying Gentoo too much anyway). Robert On Sunday 26 October 2003 8:36 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert and other folks, Problem solved now. Hereinunder is my solution. 1) Replaced both /root/.bashrc and /home/satimis/.bashrc with the attached file which was found from Internet. 2) Edited /etc/hostname localhost (only one word) 3) Rebooted the PC On Konsole window now it displays ROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ All words in black colour Lot of thanks for your kind advice and time spent. B.R. Stephen Robert Crawford wrote: Stephen, What's your /etc/hosts file look like? Mine is: 127.0.0.1localhost mymachine Maybe Tom's previous post (quoted below) is what we both need in /etc/skel/.bashrc? [ -f /etc/profile ] . /etc/profile However, all seems to work fine with how I have it now- I was informed on the Gentoo forum to do what I have done. Hmmm. just looked at my /etc/skel/.bashrc, and I forgot I had added this line, when I was figuring out the cfg-update replacement for Gentoo's etc-update. This looks relevant to what we're talking about, but it didn't change my xterm prompt at all. # The following is added by me to source /etc/profile [ -f /etc/profile ] source /etc/profile Come to think of it, I was having trouble getting x to open an xxdiff window from an xterminal after put the cfg-update perl script into /usr/local/bin, and the author of the script advised me to add that line to /etc/skel/.bashrc, and it fixed my problem. Robert On Saturday 25 October 2003 7:51 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert and folks # echo source /etc/profile /home/satimis/.bashrc NOW becomes As ROOT mymachine root # As USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis $ How to change them to; As ROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ B.R. Stephen Robert Crawford wrote: Try placing this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file- it worked for me. source /etc/profile This will also show the current directory if you cd to another directory, instead of just the bash-2.05b$ prompt. Robert Crawford On Saturday 25 October 2003 1:06 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:21, Patrick Börjesson wrote: Can you please send ---code $ grep '$BASH' /etc/profile if [ -n BASH ] if [ -n BASH ] ^^^ There should be a $-sign here (inside quotation-signs, before BASH) Sorry, my typo. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:00, Barry Marler wrote: I may as well add that you'll have to re-source .bashrc, a la: source ~/.bashrc (or simply . ~/.bashrc). On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:55, Barry Marler wrote: Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\](\w) \$ \[\033[00m\]' to ~/.bashrc. Thanks. By including [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the prompt I want. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Had I read closely enough in the first place, I would have included the user element. Sorry! On 10:13 Mon 27 Oct , Dennis Robertson wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:00, Barry Marler wrote: I may as well add that you'll have to re-source .bashrc, a la: source ~/.bashrc (or simply . ~/.bashrc). On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:55, Barry Marler wrote: Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\](\w) \$ \[\033[00m\]' to ~/.bashrc. Thanks. By including [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the prompt I want. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question (PROBLEM SOLVED)
Hi Robert and other folks,
Problem solved now.
Hereinunder is my solution.
1) Replaced both
/root/.bashrc
and
/home/satimis/.bashrc
with the attached file which was found from Internet.
2) Edited
/etc/hostname
localhost
(only one word)
3) Rebooted the PC
On Konsole window now it displays
ROOT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
USER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$
All words in black colour
Lot of thanks for your kind advice and time spent.
B.R.
Stephen
Robert Crawford wrote:
Stephen,
What's your /etc/hosts file look like? Mine is:
127.0.0.1 localhost mymachine
Maybe Tom's previous post (quoted below) is what we both need in
/etc/skel/.bashrc?
[ -f /etc/profile ] . /etc/profile
However, all seems to work fine with how I have it now- I was informed on the
Gentoo forum to do what I have done.
Hmmm. just looked at my /etc/skel/.bashrc, and I forgot I had added this line,
when I was figuring out the cfg-update replacement for Gentoo's etc-update.
This looks relevant to what we're talking about, but it didn't change my
xterm prompt at all.
# The following is added by me to source /etc/profile
[ -f /etc/profile ] source /etc/profile
Come to think of it, I was having trouble getting x to open an xxdiff window
from an xterminal after put the cfg-update perl script into /usr/local/bin,
and the author of the script advised me to add that line to
/etc/skel/.bashrc, and it fixed my problem.
Robert
On Saturday 25 October 2003 7:51 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Robert and folks
# echo source /etc/profile /home/satimis/.bashrc
NOW becomes
As ROOT
mymachine root #
As USER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis $
How to change them to;
As ROOT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
As USER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$
B.R.
Stephen
Robert Crawford wrote:
Try placing this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file- it worked for me.
source /etc/profile
This will also show the current directory if you cd to another directory,
instead of just the bash-2.05b$ prompt.
Robert Crawford
On Saturday 25 October 2003 1:06 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi all folks,
Gentoo 1.4
==
On KDE Konsole window
As ROOT, it prompts
mymachine root #
not as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
As USER
bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$
Kindly advise how to change them back
Thanks
B.R.
Stephen Liu
# /etc/bashrc
# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile
# by default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
# are we an interactive shell?
if [ $PS1 ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then
if [ x`tput kbs` != x ]; then # We can't do this with dumb terminal
stty erase `tput kbs`
elif [ -x /usr/bin/wc ]; then
if [ `tput kbs|wc -c ` -gt 0 ]; then # We can't do this with dumb terminal
stty erase `tput kbs`
fi
fi
fi
case $TERM in
xterm*)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
else
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \033]0;[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007'
fi
;;
screen)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
else
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\033\\'
fi
;;
*)
[ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ]
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default
;;
esac
# Turn on checkwinsize
shopt -s checkwinsize
[ $PS1 = \\s-\\v\\\$ ] PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\\$
# PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \h\033\[m \w\]\\$\[\e\[m\]
if [ x$SHLVL != x1 ]; then # We're not a login shell
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -r $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
fi
fi
# vim:ts=4:sw=4
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[gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
It isn't? It's just as my prompt looks on my Gentoo install - it's looked like that way for the last 8 months. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:23:33PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi William, I am running only KDE without GNOME As USER prompting bash-2.05b$, I met this problem before on another distro. A file (a hidden file) under /home/satimis/ was missing. I copied the same file (also hidden file) from /root/ to /home/satimis/ the problem gone. Unfortunately I could not recall its name As ROOT prompting mymachine root # I am now searching around where I can get its name 'mymachine' changed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' B.R. Stephen William Kenworthy wrote: Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\](\w) \$ \[\033[00m\]' to ~/.bashrc. On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:43, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi William, I am running only KDE without GNOME As USER prompting bash-2.05b$, I met this problem before on another distro. A file (a hidden file) under /home/satimis/ was missing. I copied the same file (also hidden file) from /root/ to /home/satimis/ the problem gone. Unfortunately I could not recall its name As ROOT prompting mymachine root # I am now searching around where I can get its name 'mymachine' changed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' B.R. Stephen William Kenworthy wrote: Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
I may as well add that you'll have to re-source .bashrc, a la: source ~/.bashrc (or simply . ~/.bashrc). On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:55, Barry Marler wrote: Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\](\w) \$ \[\033[00m\]' to ~/.bashrc. On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:43, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi William, I am running only KDE without GNOME As USER prompting bash-2.05b$, I met this problem before on another distro. A file (a hidden file) under /home/satimis/ was missing. I copied the same file (also hidden file) from /root/ to /home/satimis/ the problem gone. Unfortunately I could not recall its name As ROOT prompting mymachine root # I am now searching around where I can get its name 'mymachine' changed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' B.R. Stephen William Kenworthy wrote: Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
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Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi Stephen, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 19:06 schrieb Stephen Liu: On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Yes, yes, this IS a problem on gentoo. Let's examine the startup files, assuming you are using kdm and kde3.1. The first question is: what does kdm start after logging in? ---code $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession --- This is the file that is invoked as user by kdm after login. Let's check the first line: ---code $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession #!/bin/bash --login --- You see, bash is invoked as login shell. The first sourced file is /etc/profile. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands only from the first one that exists and is readable (- man bash). When you have chosen to start kde3.1, the next file which gets invoked is /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde (have a look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession). ---code $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/sh --login $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-09-30 10:16 /bin/sh - bash --- Now bash is invoked as sh and as login shell, too. So the sourced files are /etc/profile and ~/.profile only, in that order (- man bash). The last thing you do is starting konsole as terminal with your login shell, assuming to be bash, but it is not invoked as login shell, so it sources only the file ~/.bashrc. On a fresh installed gentoo, you have ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc in the users' home directories ($ ls -a /etc/skel). So the files are sourced in this order: /etc/profile (by Xsession), ~/.bash_profile (by Xsession), /etc/profile (by startkde), ~/.bashrc (by konsole) You are interested in PS1 for setting your command prompt. This is set in /etc/profile, but it checks for a !dumb terminal, but bash has always been invoked as dumb terminal. So all you have to do is to change both lines ---listing /etc/profile if [ $TERM != 'dumb' ] [ -n $BASH ] --- to ---listing /etc/profile if [ -n $BASH ] --- Maybe you should also remove --login from the shebang line in /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde, because whenever kde starts, the invoking user is already logged in. In X this should be done by Xsession. The login profiles are to be sourced only one time. I hope this makes the kde startup a little bit clearer. Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hello Kai, This was bugging me, too, so I did what you said. All checked out as per your message except your changes made no difference. I still get the bash login. Can you help some more, please. On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:13, Kai Lindenberg wrote: Hi Stephen, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 19:06 schrieb Stephen Liu: On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Yes, yes, this IS a problem on gentoo. Let's examine the startup files, assuming you are using kdm and kde3.1. The first question is: what does kdm start after logging in? ---code $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession --- This is the file that is invoked as user by kdm after login. Let's check the first line: ---code $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession #!/bin/bash --login --- You see, bash is invoked as login shell. The first sourced file is /etc/profile. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands only from the first one that exists and is readable (- man bash). When you have chosen to start kde3.1, the next file which gets invoked is /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde (have a look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession). ---code $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/sh --login $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-09-30 10:16 /bin/sh - bash --- Now bash is invoked as sh and as login shell, too. So the sourced files are /etc/profile and ~/.profile only, in that order (- man bash). The last thing you do is starting konsole as terminal with your login shell, assuming to be bash, but it is not invoked as login shell, so it sources only the file ~/.bashrc. On a fresh installed gentoo, you have ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc in the users' home directories ($ ls -a /etc/skel). So the files are sourced in this order: /etc/profile (by Xsession), ~/.bash_profile (by Xsession), /etc/profile (by startkde), ~/.bashrc (by konsole) You are interested in PS1 for setting your command prompt. This is set in /etc/profile, but it checks for a !dumb terminal, but bash has always been invoked as dumb terminal. So all you have to do is to change both lines ---listing /etc/profile if [ $TERM != 'dumb' ] [ -n $BASH ] --- to ---listing /etc/profile if [ -n $BASH ] --- Maybe you should also remove --login from the shebang line in /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde, because whenever kde starts, the invoking user is already logged in. In X this should be done by Xsession. The login profiles are to be sourced only one time. I hope this makes the kde startup a little bit clearer. Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hello Barry, Following your advice I get: dencar (~) $ at the prompt. The aterm titlebar reads: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ which is correct. Can you help further with the prompt to have it specify user dennis, please. TIA. BTW there is a script in ~/.bashrc to change the window title of X terminals, which I assume is producing the titlebar entry I mentioned. On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:00, Barry Marler wrote: I may as well add that you'll have to re-source .bashrc, a la: source ~/.bashrc (or simply . ~/.bashrc). On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:55, Barry Marler wrote: Append PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\](\w) \$ \[\033[00m\]' to ~/.bashrc. On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:43, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi William, I am running only KDE without GNOME As USER prompting bash-2.05b$, I met this problem before on another distro. A file (a hidden file) under /home/satimis/ was missing. I copied the same file (also hidden file) from /root/ to /home/satimis/ the problem gone. Unfortunately I could not recall its name As ROOT prompting mymachine root # I am now searching around where I can get its name 'mymachine' changed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' B.R. Stephen William Kenworthy wrote: Nope, its not normal, you dont know what your missing! Looks like the gentoo env scripts (bash) arent being run on login. Are you using a login shell (one of the options to gnome-terminal, others should be similar.) BillK On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:07, Paul Fraser wrote: Change them to what? That behaviour is normal. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:06:09PM +, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
On Saturday 25 Oct 2003 14:33, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello Barry, Following your advice I get: dencar (~) $ at the prompt. The aterm titlebar reads: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ which is correct. Can you help further with the prompt to have it specify user dennis, please. TIA. BTW there is a script in ~/.bashrc to change the window title of X terminals, which I assume is producing the titlebar entry I mentioned. In /etc/profile: if [ `/usr/bin/whoami` = 'root' ] then # Do not set PS1 for dumb terminals if [ $TERM != 'dumb' ] [ -n $BASH ] then export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\][$(/bin/date +%H:%M) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[01;34m \]\w\[\033[01;31m\]]\n\$ \[\033[00m\]' fi else # Do not set PS1 for dumb terminals if [ $TERM != 'dumb' ] [ -n $BASH ] then export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\][$(/bin/date +%H:%M) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[01;34m \]\w\[\033[01;32m\]]\n\$ \[\033[00m\]' fi fi Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Try placing this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file- it worked for me. source /etc/profile This will also show the current directory if you cd to another directory, instead of just the bash-2.05b$ prompt. Robert Crawford On Saturday 25 October 2003 1:06 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi Robert and folks # echo source /etc/profile /home/satimis/.bashrc NOW becomes As ROOT mymachine root # As USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis $ How to change them to; As ROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ B.R. Stephen Robert Crawford wrote: Try placing this line at the end of your ~/.bashrc file- it worked for me. source /etc/profile This will also show the current directory if you cd to another directory, instead of just the bash-2.05b$ prompt. Robert Crawford On Saturday 25 October 2003 1:06 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4 == On KDE Konsole window As ROOT, it prompts mymachine root # not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# As USER bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ Kindly advise how to change them back Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
Hi Dennis, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 15:01 schrieb Dennis Robertson: This was bugging me, too, so I did what you said. All checked out as per your message except your changes made no difference. I still get the bash login. Can you help some more, please. yes, of course, have you changed both lines in /etc/profile? Can you please send ---code $ grep '$BASH' /etc/profile $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde $ ls -l /bin/sh --- Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Command Prompt question
I deleted earlier posts in this thread so this might not be relevant, but if your problem is that you made changes in /etc/profile and they do not show up when you log into KDE for example then I found that creating file .bashrc in the home directory and adding line: source /etc/profile helped and /etc/profile changes were implemented afterwards. Imre Kai Lindenberg wrote: Hi Dennis, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 15:01 schrieb Dennis Robertson: This was bugging me, too, so I did what you said. All checked out as per your message except your changes made no difference. I still get the bash login. Can you help some more, please. yes, of course, have you changed both lines in /etc/profile? Can you please send ---code $ grep '$BASH' /etc/profile $ grep ^Session= /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde $ ls -l /bin/sh --- Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
