Re: [SLUG] bash prompt - setting it to current user (Gentoo)

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 18:32:30 EDT

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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:41:01PM -0400, Eric Jahn wrote:

> 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.

Just a guess, but you might have a look at /etc/profile, wherein should
lie the generic spec for $PS1. That's what it is on my Debian machine.
On other distros, it may be some other similar file in the /etc tree.

Paul

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