On Fri, 9 May 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote:

> >>>>> Lu Jimmy Chenji writes:
> 
> > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt?
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Maybe I just fell off the turnip truck or something, but doesn't the
~/.profile get read AFTER the login?!?  How can it know who's about to
login to put the right text in?

> If you use `bash' as your shell of choice, check out the PS1 environment
> variable.  Mine is currently set to "[\h] \w\$".  Check out /etc/profile or
> ~/.profile or... to find out where it's set.



--Rick

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