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Old 02-16-2011
PS1 issue between Solaris and Ubuntu
I'm relatively new to *nix, and have been playing around with my .profile. I've been using ksh as my shell. Specifically I've been playing with my PS1 prompt, and trying to make it look uniform across Ubuntu and Solaris. I've posted what I currently have below.

Code:
HOSTNAME=$(hostname) ; export HOSTNAME 
PS1='$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD> ' ; export PS1



Currently this works fine in Solaris 10 and 11 express if I connect via ssh or open a terminal on a console session, and with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 if I connect via ssh - the problems is when I'm on an Ubuntu console (I've switched my main pc to ubuntu as a desktop os) all I get is my ksh "$" prompt. If I source my .profile then the PS1 prompt will work.

I've been scratching my head at this and finally decided to post - I'm sure it's a pretty simple/obvious issue I'm overlooking.

I've searched through these forums but didn't find a post that matched my issue, forgive me if I missed a post that addresses this.
 
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