On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:13 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:48, John Williams wrote:
> > the bash prompt on my user terminal screen has reverted to displaying
> > "bash-2.05b$" instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] yyyy']#" and also I have
> > lost the use of user defined aliases.
>
> Can you re-source your ".bashrc" file
> $ source ~/.bashrc
bash-2.05b$ source ~/.bashrc
bash: /home/jkiwi/.bashrc: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$ locate .bashrc
/etc/skel/.bashrc
bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/skel/.bashrc
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
bash-2.05b$
Doing:
bash-2.05b export PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED] > " # from the "Prompt Basics" per Robert
Fisher
corrects the problem but only for that session. How can I "fix" the entry?
I guess I'm the bug, today. John.
