On Monday 12 January 2009 17:41:09 mhe...@gmail.com wrote: > > within an xsession or when login in remotely via ssh the initial > > path > > > > is always: /usr/home/ despite $PATH being /home/ > > > > That is, xterm initially reads: ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ > > > > instead of just: ibook:~$ > > > > > > > > Is this a configuration issue or a bug/feature of xterm? > > xterm is innocent here. It is the shell running inside xterm that > displays the prompt. > > Which shell are you using, how did you configure the prompt? > > with ksh(1), using "export PS1='\h:\w$ '" to define the prompt, I get > the correct result most of the time, even if /bin/pwd reports > /usr/home/matthieu. > > Other shells may behave differently.
okay it is korn shell: line from /etc/passwd rudi:*:100:100:Rudi:/home/rudi:/bin/ksh my .profile reads: # $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.4 2005/02/16 06:56:57 matthieu Exp $ # # sh/ksh initialization PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ local/sbin:/usr/games:. export PATH HOME TERM EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR EXINIT='set autoindent'; export EXINIT PAGER=less; export PAGER PS1='\h:\w$ '; export PS1 set -o vi umask 0022 Opening a new Konsole in KDE and trying some commands: ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ /bin/pwd /usr/home/rudi ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ cd ibook:~$ /bin/pwd /usr/home/rudi ibook:~$ echo $HOME /home/rudi ibook:~$ echo $PWD /home/rudi ibook:~$ To me the issue is mostly cosmetic, but I have to admit that the first command I type in is almost always "cd" to get a short and readable command prompt. And I would like to avoid that extra. Rudi
