On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 03:34:01PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > 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.
Right, but almost every distribution compares $SHELL to /bin/bash. It's not great, but it works. (Actually, [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ] would be most reliable.) Do we have a policy about this? There is something about not requiring environment variables, I know. Maybe the "right thing to do" is modify bash itself to _default_ to the right prompt. bash$ is just useless, after all. Have fun, Avery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
