But I don't have an operable user to copy from. All my users (including
root) now show "bash-2.05b$" initially, until I log in to a specific
user, then all is normal as before.
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:03, Chuck Fricke wrote:
> In RedHat you would just copy over the .bashrc file from the operable users
> home directory.
>
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Jahn" <eric@ejahn.net>
> To: "SLUG" <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 2:35 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] bash prompt - setting it to current user (Gentoo)
>
>
> > I have a stupid question, yet the answer eludes me...
> >
> > everything was working great with my console (KDE's Konsole), then I did
> > a big system upgrade which overwrote some config files and now when I
> > open a new console it shows the prompt thusly:
> >
> > bash-2.05b$
> >
> > when it used to show my username/host, etc. from the outset like this:
> >
> > ejahn@localhost ejahn $
> >
> > Then, if I log in as "ejahn", then it shows everything in the correct
> > username/host format as before. I know how to configure a bash prompt,
> > but what I don't understand is how to make a new console display a
> > prompt for the current user (not the generic "bash-2.05b$" one) without
> > having to subsequently log in to the current user with a password.
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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