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Old 1st April 2009
Loki Loki is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bsdnewbie999 View Post
echo $TERM give me xterm

the code actually works for root account but not normal user..
There is some glitch somewhere in $user's .profile, most likely.
What I gave you works here even with xterm.

Easy mistakes we all have made sometime:
' at one end " at other (I forget if that growls at you in PS1 setting)
leaving out a quote or having a space in there where it should not be
some other tyop

Otherwise you have me beat. I've been using it for years without problems.
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