On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 07:38 +0000, freejay@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, this is kind of a newbie question. The other day I logged on to our > test Linux server here at work, I noticed that the command prompt changed from > the normal "[root@localhost root]#" to "-bash-2.05b$". I think one of my > colleagues changed something in the configurations. How is this possible? One of countless "howto" docs you can google for: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/articles/custom-prompts.html or man bash (man tcsh, man zsh, etc) - it's buried in there somwhere. -- t. scott urban <scottu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>