The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore 
your lost one either, if I understand you correctly.

Jay

On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique:
> right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered:
> i have lost the pretty colors in my terminal.
> it doesn't appear to live in /etc, now i dont know if that's bad or not,
> but there is where it lives:
> bash-2.05$ locate bashrc
> /etc/skel/.bashrc
> /home/antoine/.bashrc
> bash-2.05$ cd /
> bash-2.05$ locate bash-2.05
> /var/cache/grpmi/bash-2.05-6mdk.i586.rpm
> /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05
> /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/README
> /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/CHANGES
>
> would trying to upgrade it with a later bash-2.05 from mandrake cooker
> possibly solve my probleme?(i suppose i could try, and i will unless
> somebody tells me it's a bad idea)
>
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 20:09, you wrote:
> > Well, when I loaded bash-2.05, I didn't have any hostname issues as such,
> > but it did rename /etc/bashrc to /etc/bashrc.rpmnew - which caused a bit
> > of confusion as my custom prompt was located there. All I had to do was
> > change the name of the file back and all was well.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Jay
> >
> > On Friday 07 September 2001 12:38, I was honored with this communique:
> > > On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote:
> > > > Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned
> > > > home directory?
> > > > The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in
> > > > LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was
> > > > created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . .
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it's just a coincidence
> > >
> > > the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore
> > > the same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory,
> > > that bash-2.05$
> > > doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi
> > > > i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before,
> > > > but i cant find it in the archive:
> > > > in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by
> > > > bash-2.05$
> > > > anybody?
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