On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 06:36:31PM -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > I would like to use the stock logic in /etc/bashrc to implement a > custom PS1 prompt. > > Can someone please show me how to prefix the following in a > /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm file? > > PS1="\n\\033[1;31m`cat /etc/redhat-release`\n\\033[1;34m\d \\033[0;32m\t CDT\n\\033[0;36m[\u@\h] \\033[1;33m\w\\033[0;37m\n\\$ " > > Everything I've tried still gives me the stock PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' That's not what /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm is expected to do. If the /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm file exists, it is run before the prompt is printed. For all that bash knows, it's a binary file (i.e., it is not "sourced" by the shell). I think you want to either make bash-prompt-xterm just print out the information you're looking for, or to move the file to /etc/profile.d and rename it local-prompt.sh or somesuch. HTH, Nalin
