Found the answer to this one. It is NOT a Bash 2 problem! It is another SuSE gotcha! SuSE customizes the login prompt for EVERYONE in /etc/profile with PROMPT_COMMAND. If you comment that out users can customize their own prompt in .bash_profile, like always. The lines in the original message (below) work just fine now. Wayne Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Is this a Bash 2 problem? Date: Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 04:20:21PM -0500 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa (wtopa@ix.netcom.com):

Hello

I wonder if there are any Bash 2.0 guru's on this list? I had a prompt line set up that worked in Bash 1 that doesn't now. Have tried to get working but to no avail.

Here it is:

V_TERM=`tty` export PS1="\[`setterm -foreground green`\]\[`setterm -bold on`\]VT${V_TERM##/dev/tty} \u-S1:\w\\$\[`setterm -default`\] "

Not a big deal but I am curious. Any ideas??

Wayne

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