BASH question

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Edit: Your stuff works fine for me, in ubuntu 10.10

i have no fucking clue what's going on with it. according to the accounts support people, they're not getting this thing either. and i'm not on ubuntu. it's a remote unix machine...but that shouldn't make a difference.

[Fireye]

i have no fucking clue what's going on with it. according to the accounts support people, they're not getting this thing either. and i'm not on ubuntu. it's a remote unix machine...but that shouldn't make a difference.

"remote unix machine" really isn't specific enough. What flavor of Unix, Linux, or BSD is it running? What version of bash is it running (try bash --version).

You can use uname -a to find out what kernel it's running, and if it has lsb_release, you can try that too (lsb_release -a).

[acolyte_to_jippity]

bash --version

GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

uname -a

SunOS dunx1 5.9 Generic_118558-38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire

edit: i might have just fixed it. i needed a semicolon after the PS1= line in my .bash_profile

[Fireye]

Oh, you're running on Solaris? Good luck, have fun, I'll waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over here!

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Oh, you're running on Solaris? Good luck, have fun, I'll waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over here!

well, like i said. i fixed the prompt thing.

but now i think i broke the other machine...

tux no longer lets me onto the ftp server...FUCK

[Fireye]

well, like i said. i fixed the prompt thing.

but now i think i broke the other machine...

tux no longer lets me onto the ftp server...FUCK

Are you able to get to the banner or user/pass prompt on it? If not, check netstat -ant (not sure how that translates to solaris) and see if anything is listening on port21.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Are you able to get to the banner or user/pass prompt on it? If not, check netstat -ant (not sure how that translates to solaris) and see if anything is listening on port21.

well, the other machine's one works fine (dunx1).

i can log onto tux using the ssh client, but the ftp won't connect when i open a session (i use Secure Shell ssh)

edit: netstant -ant gave me alot of stuff, but:

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN



i'm pretty sure it's port 22 for me

edit edit: ahhhh, tux is not solaris.

bash --version:

GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

uname -a:

Linux tux64-12.cs.drexel.edu 2.6.29-8-cs-np #9 SMP Sun Aug 16 00:46:06 EDT 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
Release:        9.04
Codename:       jaunty