On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:22:44 -0700, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:25:48 -0700, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw >> wrote: [...] >>> >>> Ah! Permission/ownership problem? >>> >> Good suggestion. I found that for myUser .bashrc had the wrong >> permissions and .bash_profile was missing! I am sure that this >> happened because I copied /home/myUser was copied in from backup before >> the account was created. We won't do that again. >> >> But now, I still do not see how the prompt is set since I have no >> /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default . > >>From the code /etc/bashrc: > <...> > screen) > if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then > PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen > else > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne > "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\033\\"' > fi > ;; > <...> > > mark Not so. With this debug: --- echo TERM = $TERM # are we an interactive shell? if [ "$PS1" ]; then case $TERM in xterm*) if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/# $HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"' fi ;; screen) echo doing screen if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/ ~}"; echo -ne "\033\\"' fi ;; *) echo doing default [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/ sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ;; esac --- I get: TERM = linux doing default The mystery remains. Mike. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos