Command line question

[Kathryn Tate]

I think I know what you are talking about now--though I could be wrong 
but will take a stab at it.
bash is the default shell of all linux distros--at least to my 
knowledge.
And what you noticed changing was the prompt at the command line, not 
the shell. For example, when you su as root, you probably noticed the 
prompt change from $ to #. The reason this happens is for security--to 
let you know that you now have super user privileges so watch what you 
do as you could mess something up.

If you don't like the dollar sign as your prompt, you can configure 
this as well.
You can change what your prompt looks like.

If this is what you were talking about, let me know and I'll show you 
how to change your prompt.

Kathryn


On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Robert J. Grange wrote:

> My default shell was the shell that is set by YDL as the default.  It 
> was not a bash shell, though I am sorry to say that I don't recall 
> what it was.  However, when I signed in as either root, or su, the 
> shell acted differently.  Then one day, the bash command line shows 
> up.  And as for upgrading to v4, I will wait a while.
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Kathryn Tate wrote:
>
>> Are you talking about getting your default shell to start up when you 
>> open the terminal? What was your default shell? You can change which 
>> shell starts up in your login scripts. Those would be .bashrc, 
>> .profile, .kshrc and so on.
>>
>> The latest is version 4 (. something) of Yellow Dog.
>>
>> Kathryn
>> On Sep 12, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Robert J. Grange wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I updated my linux version to the latest of 3, whatever that is.  
>>> When I went into the terminal window and typed in su, then my 
>>> password, I got a bash command line.  What happened to the default 
>>> command line I have no idea, but now yum will not update, or 
>>> anything else for that matter.  Can someone help with getting my 
>>> default command line back, or do I have to hack the yum.conf file or 
>>> what .  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert
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