On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Wayne Topa wrote:

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.

Why comment it out? it's meant for users who don't have or need a special prompt. If you do need something diff then your variable will over ride the one in /etc/profile. -- Lou A. Costabile Voice and Fax: [613] 781-7061 <A HREF="mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com">mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com</A> To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject field. You must restart your computer before the new message will take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now? Yes or Yes -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e