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How to change my terminal prompt (PS1)

By On 26 September 2011 · Leave a Comment

On newer distributions you can easily change your terminal prompt, (which is controlled by the PS1 environment variable, btw) by adding a file with the prompt format string to the /etc/profile.d directory. You may name the file whatever you like, e.g. set-prompt.sh, but make sure that inside it there is a line that sets PS1 […]

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INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rcS” (or rc)

By On 30 March 2011 · Leave a Comment

PROBLEM:
The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output):
INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc”

Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing.

SOLUTION:
In /bin provide […]

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