[Gllug] bash prompt

SteveC steve at fractalus.com
Mon Dec 2 21:26:02 UTC 2002


* Tethys (tet at accucard.com) wrote:
> 
> SteveC 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.
> 
> The prompt alone gives a clue. It implies bash is being invoked as /bin/sh

sorry, i get bash-2.05a :-)

bash-2.05a$ cat /etc/passwd | grep steve
steve:x:1000:100:steve,,,:/home/steve:/bin/bash
bash-2.05a$ 

any more guesses? This is becoming quite annoying.
 
have fun,

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