Hi, the file "/etc/profile" should contain only absolut necessary entries. Of course there are thousands of tricks one could do in "/etc/profile", but this stuff (and explanative examples) belong to "/usr/doc/examples". Nobody really wants to mess around with other people taste regarding to enviroment variables and such. Which setting is essential, which not? How do they interact which each other?
Here is a very useful setting for you profile. It should be immediatly included in the debian profile. ;-) ----- snipp ----- if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "vs100" ] then PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;Machine: $HOST\ User: $LOGNAME\ Directory: $PWD\007\033]1;$LOGNAME:$HOST\007"' export PROMPT_COMMAND fi ----- snipp ----- Of course, LOGNAME and HOST must be set ... Have fun Winfried