Environment vars calling programs

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Author: BillWarnerwwarner@direct-alliance.com
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Subject: Environment vars calling programs
> print everything I want until I su. The username doesn't follow the user.
> I'm setting USER=`whoami` and using $USER in PS1 to get the username.
> I've also used `whoami` directly in the PS1 var. No luck. Is that
> because the su program on HP-UX isn't designed to update any env vars?


check for a logname command if there is no whoami then these settings wont work.
My PS1 on a sco box looks like:
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
This should be too much diffrent on any *nix running bash.
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Bill Warner, aka Geekus Nosleepus No. 355122
Direct Alliance Corp.
Unix/Linux Admin.