If you just want your shell prompt to be what it used to be, issue export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$" PS1 is the prompt variable... On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 01:38, 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?