Ian Malone wrote .. > info bash, shell variables, bourne shell variables (PS1 and PS2)/bash > variables (PS3 and PS4). > PS1 is probably the one you care about. You've said on another > thread that you're familiar with DOS, PS1 is roughly equivalent > to DOS's 'PROMPT'. > > It's odd that you get '-bash-3.00#' though, I've only seen that > on systems at runlevel 1 (where I suppose .bashrc isn't run). > It's possible the root acount on that machine is missing .bashrc > or something. > > Typically interesting per-user things are set in ~/.bash_profile > That was the problem, I was missing the ./bashrc and ./bash_profile from the /root/. I can only imagine why I didn't have those files. Thank you everyone for your help.
