-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Ok, trying to be "conservative", I have changed the default prompt for > > root from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' to '\h:\w\$ ' in base-files_1.9. > > > > I would really like to see something like '\h:\w\$ ' (or '\w\$ ' at > > least) in /etc/skel/.bashrc. Would it be against policy? > > Why not /etc/profile? Or is that against policy?
/etc/profile is read by many different shells, almost any of which understand bash escapes, while .bash_profile is only read by bash. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNUM3xCqK7IlOjMLFAQHMngP+I93if5NckBcvWOxRWs77VXd+ZHLRgO9R 4UCCcuxTO+IXaQ0LmZ+osquE0Wr9jq1TtmkoXTCHtABFXfq7SsQmgWcJoqU8vpZZ 4FWGSZ75Cd9QnBz8yExtxO23tPJXrEsMoHdYX3VFir3jewNK6CJAcxyuQqzPYOlz lnWWtP88DSo= =PkTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
