Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a stock RedHat 7.3 installation, I am trying to customize the prompt. > I edited ~/.bash_profile so that it'll have also the command: > PS1='[\!][\u@\h:\w]\$ ' > > Inside an xterm, if I source .bash_profile, then the prompt changes to > what I want it to be. > However if I log out and log back into Gnome, and open a new xterm window, > then it displays the original prompt. This happens both with and without > 'export PS1' in .bash_profile. > > Other environment variables, which were set in .bash_profile (such as > PATH), have the expected values, so .bash_profile actually got > executed.
I would be very surprized if ~/.bash_profile got executed for every xterm. It should not be: ~/.bash_profile is only sourced for login shells, cf. "man bash". From your description, I think your system behaves properly and according to documentation. I export PS1 and PS2 from ~/.bashrc, which works just fine. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]