From: tfisher AT teamparadigm DOT com (Tim Fisher) Subject: /etc/profile ignored; other strangeness 27 Jan 1998 14:48:51 -0800 Message-ID: <003b01bd2b52$c90b5e40$b2e2e3d0.cygnus.gnu-win32@caliban.teamparadigm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: I have three questions, but they're all sort of related so here goes: 1) Seems like bash ignores /etc/profile, so I have to explicitly source it from the /etc/bashrc file. I don't have to do this in Linux. Is this by design, or am I doing something wrong here? 2) My PS1 variable is set to PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " but when bash first starts up, the \W defaults to nil. It will update only if I change directories, and then I get some strange behavior. This occurs only after first starting up bash. After 'cd'ing around a bit, it settles down: [Administrator AT CALIBAN ]$ cd usr [Administrator AT CALIBAN usr]$ pwd ../usr [Administrator AT CALIBAN usr]$ cd incoming [Administrator AT CALIBAN /incoming]$ pwd /incoming [Administrator AT CALIBAN /incoming]$ cd /usr [Administrator AT CALIBAN /usr]$ cd incoming [Administrator AT CALIBAN incoming]$ pwd /usr/incoming [Administrator AT CALIBAN incoming]$ BTW, I have two partitions, one is mounted on /usr, the other on /. Both filesystems have a root directory called `incoming', so if my current directory is /usr, then a `cd incoming' should get me to /usr/incoming, not /incoming. What is going on here? 3) As you can see above, the hostname of my system is printed in all caps for some reason. I placed in my /etc/profile the following line: export HOSTNAME=`/NT/system32/hostname` which works fine on the command line and returns a lower-case version of my hostname. (The cygwin32 version of hostname returns the hostname in all caps--I don't know why.) Bash is supposed to use $HOSTNAME for the \h in $PS1. Again, what is going on here? --Tim Fisher - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".