On the flaccid day of Apr 9, James K. Lowden penned:

> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:54:13 -0400 Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
> > >Can anyone tell me why my prompt in xterms doesn't reflect the prompt
> > >in my .profile?  When I log in, I get a prompt like
> > >"jklowden@home.schemamania.org$", but every xterm starts off with
> > >"bash-2.04$ " until I issue ". .profile".  

Are you starting your xterm with "-ls", for (L)ogin (S)hell?

-bp
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