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Quantumstate
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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: A Few Things to Make Life Easier |
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Withdrawn.
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moocha
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: A Few Things to Make Life Easier |
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| Quantumstate wrote: | Those migrating from other distros to 2004.1 will often end up with a dead-basic prompt like:
bash-2.05b# |
That will only happen when the shell isn't a login shell. Don't use plain su, use The trailing dash ensures the shell is a login shell. Voila, problem solved.
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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gtaluvit
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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When you create a new user, it should copy .bashrc and .bash_login from /etc/skel. If you're migrating from another distro, you can cp those files from there. That will give you what gentoo expects you to have and not this custom stuff. 
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lazarusrat
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: A Few Things to Make Life Easier |
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| Quantumstate wrote: | | Code: | ...
#Don't clog up .bash_history with useless commands
HISTIGNORE=l:ls:ll:la:cd:pwd
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If you want to keep your bash_history nice and clean, it's also handy to set HISTCONTROL:
| man bash wrote: | HISTCONTROL
If set to a value of ignorespace, lines which begin with a space character are not entered on the history list. If set to a value of ignoredups, lines matching the last history line are not entered. A value of ignoreboth combines the two options. If unset, or if set to any other value than those above, all lines read by the parser are saved on the history list, subject to the value of HISTIGNORE. This variable's function is superseded by HISTIGNORE. The second and subsequent lines of a multi-line compound command are not tested, and are added to the history regardless of the value of HISTCONTROL. |
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Quantumstate
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: A Few Things to Make Life Easier |
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| moocha wrote: |
That will only happen when the shell isn't a login shell. Don't use plain su, use The trailing dash ensures the shell is a login shell. Voila, problem solved. |
Actually, the basic prompt has happened to numerous of us, logging in straight as root. Because for some reason, .bashrc is not in in /root with 2004.1. I imagine this will be corrected, but that's why I specified this release. |
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vdboor
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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I've actually switched my .bashrc and .bash_profile to make my prompt work:
.bashrc:
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# bash startup setup
[ -f ~/.bash_profile ] && . ~/.bash_profile
source /etc/profile |
.bash_profile:
| Code: | #This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively.
alias umod='umod -v -b /opt/unreal-tournament'
alias emerge-mask='ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge'
alias flag="cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc | grep"
alias xerrors='grep -E "\((EE|WW)\)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log'
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You'll get the idea 
Now I can use "su" to become root in the current directory, and "su -" to start a root-login session. 
Furthermore, I have this at the end of my /etc/profile:
| Code: | for script in /etc/profile.d/*.sh
do
if [ -x "$script" ]; then
source "$script"
fi
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I noticed this in Slackware. It runs all *.sh scripts in /etc/profile.d if they are made executable..
...perhaps this is a suggestion for every gentoo default install?
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Fanatic
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Well i don't have such a basic prompt in the framebuffer, but i would like my aterm to have such settings so that it looks something like
user@linux dir $:
I imagine that it's something I should edit in .Xdefaults, but i'm not too sure.
EDIT: to have a such a login prompt add:
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aterm*loginShell: true
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| Remember, not everyone uses kwrite so it would be more appropriate to write use your favorite editor such as <list of editors> to edit <file>. Just a tip for when writing guides, because there are tons of people out there that don't use KDE or the same editor that you do. |
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