| Summary: | In /etc/bashrc, set PROMPT_COMMAND only if not yet set | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <rdassen> | |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | medium | |||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | asersen, azelinka, pkovar, rbinkhor, sergio | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Triaged | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: |
Bash provides the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable containing a command that is called when a prompt is displayed. Prior to this update, the PROMPT_COMMAND variable set by a custom profile.d script was overwritten with the default value from the /etc/bashrc script file. With this update, the /etc/bashrc script file has been updated so that it now respects a user-defined PROMPT_COMMAND variable, and does not overwrite it.
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Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 691430 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-08-18 06:44:30 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 691430 | |||
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Bash provides the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable containing a command that is called when a prompt is displayed. Prior to this update, the PROMPT_COMMAND variable set by a custom profile.d script was overwritten with the default value from the /etc/bashrc script file. With this update, the /etc/bashrc script file has been updated so that it now respects a user-defined PROMPT_COMMAND variable, and does not overwrite it.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1171.html |
2. What is the nature and description of the request? Make a change to the default /etc/bashrc file so that if PROMPT_COMMAND has not already been set, then to set it. [ -z "${PROMPT_COMMAND}" ] && PROMPT_COMMAND= 'echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"' 3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here). Customer wants the bash .history contents to be a more reliable audit of user activities. Multiple articles found via google recommend setting env variable PROMPT_COMMAND to contain 'history -a' so that multiple simultaneous shells will share (and write immediately) the most recent commands executed to the history file; refer to (among others): http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2007/11/keeping-command-history-across-multiple.html The problem with these are: 1. The file /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm is run by bash at each prompt as a new executable (in a new shell) so doesn't work for setting the current shell's history (or any other environment variables). 2. The files in /etc/profile.d/*.sh are read by /etc/profile before the /etc/bashrc file is read by the default ~/.bashrc (taken from /usr/skel/.bashrc). All changes to PROMPT_COMMAND are over-written by /etc/bashrc. 4. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here) An update to bash so that /etc/bashrc only modifies the PROMPT_COMMAND if not already set in the previous /etc/profile.d/*.sh or /etc/sysconfig/bash_prompt_xterm files. Make available in a minor update release. 5. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented. Customer is able to test the latest Z-stream release for RHEL5 and RHEL6 package that has the /etc/bashrc changes and confirms that their history setting is saved properly. 6. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? no 7. How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) RHEL5.8, RHEL6.2. 8. Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) yes. 9. List the affected packages. setup 10. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented? Yes