Sorry any badly understood. Subject: Re: Shell prompt Am So, den 29.08.2004 schrieb Arnaldo Bento um 19:08: > You deleted your ~/.bashrc. Recreate it as root: > > cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc > chown $USER:$USER ~/.bashrc > (where $USER is the user for which you have to repair the .bashrc) > --->It works as a root but not as a user. Please be more verbose. In your initial posting about this problem it was visible that you was logged in as root. So the copying of the skeleton .bashrc did fix it for root? YES. As a root it worked well. You too had the problem with a missing PS1 set as a normal user? Yes. > Copying the .bashrc from skeleton into the user's home directory did not fix > it? > > --->No > --->I copy it to a user directory /home/aabento ls -al /home/aabento/.bashrc cat /home/aabento/.bashrc ls -al /etc/bashrc Please post the output of the 3 commands. Alexander [root@aabento html]# ls -al /home/aabento/.bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 aabento nosso 124 May 22 23:24 /home/aabento/.bashrc [root@aabento html]# [root@aabento html]# cat /home/aabento/.bashrc # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi [root@aabento html]# [root@aabento html]# ls -al /etc/bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1180 Mar 3 03:52 /etc/bashrc [root@aabento html]# I hope this could help you to understand my "problem ???" Tyanks.