Hello Excuse me. I made a mistake, I put the file in the wrong directory. My fault. Now everything is working well Thank you very much for the help Alexander Arnaldo Bento ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:06:30 +0200 From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Shell prompt To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1093806390.4578.806.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Am So, den 29.08.2004 schrieb Arnaldo Bento um 20:46: > I hope this could help you to understand my "problem ???" What you pasted looks ok so far and does not explain a problem as normal user "aabento". What did you do before the not set PS1 did first time occur? I don't know what you broke. If you run "source /home/aabento/.bashrc" while being logged in as aabento, does that change the prompt back to default? Alexander