From: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>
To: John Galbraith <john@bartok.lanl.gov>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PS1 corrupted through "su"
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:10:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000103101054.A420@grok.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14448.55754.322294.62194@bartok.lanl.gov>; from John Galbraith on Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:25:56AM -0700
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:25:56AM -0700, John Galbraith wrote:
> export PS1="%(?.${yellow}.${red})%~%(!.${red}#.${cyan}%%)${normal} "
> This works great, until I su root.
[snip]
> If I then start a new shell as root (by typing "zsh"), things work as
> expected.
Root's shell being set to something other than zsh would cause the
behavior you're seeing.
You've probably checked that already, but sometimes the obvious things
are the easiest to forget.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-03 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-03 17:25 John Galbraith
2000-01-03 18:03 ` Christoph Berg
2000-01-03 18:10 ` Steve Reid [this message]
2000-01-03 18:14 ` John Galbraith
2000-01-03 18:23 ` Nemeth Ervin
2000-01-04 0:18 ` John Galbraith
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