[Gllug] bash prompt

[SteveC]

* Paul Roberts (sakar at stelo.uklinux.net) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SteveC <steve at fractalus.com> writes:
> 
> > I installed gentoo 1.4 and asked this on the [rather quiet] mailing list 
> > without respons... the bash profile works fine from console login or ssh 
> > but xterm gives a nice 'sh-2.04a$' prompt.
> 
> Bash only reads the 'profile' when its started as a login shell. If
> you start it interactively as a non login shell (which is what xterm
> does), then it will read the file '$HOME/.bashrc' instead.

yeah so I cp /etc/skel/.bash* to my ~ already

no difference

then tried the ~/.bash* from a debian box, still doesn't read that!

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
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