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On Sunday 22 June 2003 14:35, Eric Jahn wrote:
> I know how to configure a bash prompt,
> but what I don't understand is how to make a new console display a
> prompt for the current user (not the generic "bash-2.05b$" one) without
> having to subsequently log in to the current user with a password.
Look at the differences between $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.bash_profile,
$HOME/.bash_login, and $HOME/.profile etc. (especially when and under what
circumstances each is sourced in).
$ man bash
scroll to the INVOCATION section
Set your PS1 prompt variable in the appropriate file(s).
HTH!
- --
"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things...
Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -JFK
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