On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 02:38, 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? Sounds like your friend deleted the .bash* files from root's home directory. You can get them back by issuing the command: cp -i /etc/skel/.bash* /root Thomas