[olug] best practices for modifying root's profile in Suse

Terry td3201 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 23 22:52:52 UTC 2004


~/.bash_profile is where I like things like that to go
(if you use bash)


--- dthacker9 at cox.net wrote:
> I'm want to build a standard root prompt with some
> extra info built into it. The file /etc/profile
> cautions against modifying it, and suggests that I
> use /etc/profile.local  I created the
> /etc/profile.local and added the PS1 string, but
> didn't seem to get a read on login.   For now I've
> added a .profile to /root.  Is that the way you
> usually do this?
> 
> TIA 
> Dave Thacker
> 
> 
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