Hi, The idea is to throw a file into /etc/profiles.d/ and have everything available in every users environment without any specific ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc tweaking. Specifically, I want to define PS1, aliases and some functions. Unfortunately it doesn't work as advertised. Here's a subset of my trial (please ignore for now the way, I define the PS1 colors here, it should work in most terminals): cat > /etc/profile.d/test.sh << EOF # shell prompt if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then set -P set -p if [ "$UID" = 0 ]; then PS1='\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[1;36m\]:\[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[0;33m\]#\[\033[0m\] ' else PS1='\[\033[1;32m\]\u\[\033[0;36m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[1;36m\]:\[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[0;33m\]>\[\033[0m\] ' fi export PS1 fi alias vi='vi -o' psg () { if [ $# -le 0 ]; then ps auxww | less else ps auxww | egrep "$@" | grep -v grep fi } export repo=/etc/zypp/repos.d EOF In theory, these should be available in every users environment. $repo is, the rest is not. After "su - $USER" or login via ssh all is well?!? Puzzled. So, there seems to be some environment tidying happen behind the scenes. Of course, I studied /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, and I can source this from ~/.bashrc. It will also not work, when sourced from ~/.profile. It might be, that PS1 is redefined from /etc/bash.bashrc, but why does it work from su - $USER or ssh then? psg() most definitely isn't redefined anywhere else. Anybody out there, who can shed some light into this issue would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org