help i can't save my PS1 setting

Paxmaster · 07-17-2004, 09:10 PM

sh-2.05b$ echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
I am using a slackware base verison (collegelinux)

sh-2.05b$ cat .bashrc
sh-2.05b$ export PS1="\e[32;1mPaxmaster>\e[31;1m"
this works but when i try to exit from aterm then enter to aterm the setting is gone

sh-2.05$ cat .bash_profile
source ~/.bashrc

I am using fluxbox as my x window

also when i want to beconme su the prompt don't become # it stay like this paxmaster>
how should i know when i am root or when i am a user

I don't know what's wrong with my shell as u can it is a /bin/sh

rgiggs · 07-17-2004, 09:18 PM

first, to me, it doesn't look like you put the PS1=... in .bashrc.
second (this is just a guess), maybe sh doesn't even use .bash* files.

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Originally posted by Paxmaster
when i want to beconme su the prompt don't become # it stay like this paxmaster>

maybe you're already running as root?

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Originally posted by Paxmaster
how should i know when i am root or when i am a user

run whoami.

Paxmaster · 07-17-2004, 10:24 PM

as u can see i add put the line in

but i downloaded college linux i thought it comes with bash shell as deflut
if i have sh shell how would i change it to bash

as above i use cat command and u can see what's in my bashrc and bash_profile

thanks

rgiggs · 07-17-2004, 10:39 PM

to change your shell, run chsh.

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Originally posted by Paxmaster
as above i use cat command and u can see what's in my bashrc and bash_profile

well your first post doesn't show the contents of your files at all.