In article <610D9810FB47D211B27300A0C9C99DB29721@illian.premier1.net> you wrote:
> PS1IDSTRING="($(hostname):$(whoami))"
> PS1='${PS1IDSTRING} ${PWD} $ '
> 
> This works out very nicely, and I can do the following sort of things and
> have the prompt follow along:
> 
> (bofh:devin) /home/devin $ cd public_html
> (bofh:devin) /home/devin/public_html $ su root
> Password:
> (bofh:root) /home/devin/public_html $ telnet foo
> 
> SunOS 5.6 (foo)
> Username: devin
> Password:
> 
> (foo:devin) /home/devin $
> 
> When I try to process these statements in NetBSD, the shell will lock up, as
> if its running an infinite loop.  I have to ^C to get the prompt back.

Erm, what exactly doesn't work here and hang the box - simply setting these two variables, changing, su'ing, telnet'ing? I've tried setting the variables
and cd'ing, and this worked ok for me on both -current and 1.3.2/sparc.


> Putting echo statements in my .kshrc shows that everything is getting
> executed up to these lines.  I've tried editing them, but there is no
> combination that I've been able to find that allows the NetBSD ksh to update
> each item in the prompt string as necessary.

Can you ktrace the hanging ksh process to get an idea what's it doing?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>