--- Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-03-13 19:30): > why my PS1 variable is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ in console (not X). And in X > (eterm) > is \s-\v\$ ??? > i wanna the first way... in the second only bash version appears.
The prompt which contains only the shell and version number (the 2nd one in your case), is the default bash prompt, which it gets when its not a login shell, or if you purposefully tell it not to read its rc files. You can try passing Eterm the "-l" (login) option, which should fix your problem. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Woody 3.0 Linux plato 2.4.16 #1 Sat Dec 8 22:01:29 GMT 2001 i686 unknown