csh/tcsh prompts under Fedora 9

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Wed May 14 23:08:57 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:07PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>     Is anyone else seeing this problem on a Fedora 9 machine
> which was upgraded from Fedora 8? I find that both csh and
> tcsh result in a command prompt which is missing the username
> of the current login. Instead it just displays @ and the
> hostname. Bash seems to behave normally in this respect.
> Is this happening with clean installs of Fedora 9 as well?

It seems you've found a bug in the current /etc/csh.cshrc -- it uses
"%u" in the default prompt, but that's not a defined format sequence for
tcsh.  Please open a bug report in bugzilla so that it's not forgotten.

HTH,

Nalin




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