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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:56:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        Marius Vincent <mvincent@elcb.co.za>
Cc:        freeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Thrashing Bash
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004271353280.83786-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJNFFELDAHIBIGIAMMECBCBAA.mvincent@elcb.co.za>

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Marius Vincent wrote:

> and Incase my box get screwed up and the shell is not there i get locked out
> of root.

Not really. I f you use su -m you keep whatever shell your using and if
you boot single user mode you are prompted for the shell to use.

> Now how do i get PS1=blah to export to the terminal?
> I tried to create a .bash_profile and added the PS1=blah into it and it does
> not work.

I dont use bash but you may be after bash --login.

Andrew



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