Hi all folk, On starting 'terminal' (console window) it popup bash-2.05b$ not as satimis@localhost satimis>$ Kindly advise how to fix it Thanks B.R. satimis

The prompt of the shell (bash) is set in /etc/bash.bashrc Your prompt is set to BASH_VERSION. Assuming that RH9.0 is not different to other Linux distros you can do: echo $PS1 so you know what you have to look for in the next step. Edit bash.bashrc with an editor like vi or kate. Go to the paragraph where the prompt is set for bash. Probably you just have to comment/uncomment some lines there. With full path on prompt your setting should look like that: PS1="${_t}${_u}:\w${_p} " This should give you satimis@computername:workingdirectory> where _u is a variable for user@host (if you are a simple user) or host (if you are root). The variables _u and _p are set *before* PS1. Mike Blum

Hi Mike, Thanks for your advice. I carried out following test without result; 1) First I made a spare copy of 'bashrc' and saved it to another folder. 2) $ echo $PS1 [\u@\h \W] \\$ 3) As ROOT # kedit /etc/bashrc found following line [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " 4) replaced "[\u@\h \W]\\$ " with "${_t}${_u}:\w${_p} " (from your advice with copy and paste command) Saved and relogin 5) Started 'terminal' window. It prompted the same. bash-2.05b$ $ echo $PS1 \s-\v\$ 6) As Root Copied back the spare copy of bashrc to /etc/bashrc 7) Relogin as USER/satimis This time $ echo $PS1 \s-\v\$ Kindly advise how to proceed. I have a RH8.0 box running without problem. I compared the /etc/bashrc of them and found the line in question looked identical. Can I copy /etc/bashrc of RH8.0 box and use the same on RH9 to fix the problem? B.R. satimis

Hi Satimis, Just MHO, but I think you should check out the settings tab as what I assume to be Konsole that you're running. As for what each character represents in the PS1 prompt, I'd look a the the man page for bash under PROMPTING. HTH, -J

Well it seems that some Linux flavours are completely different, LOL. Thanks to 'The_File_Clerk', the section 'PROMPTING' in the manpages should give you all the switches for your prompt that you need. [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " What happens if you delete the first part of the command? Here is my bashrc: # Other prompting for root _t="" if test "$UID" = 0 ; then _u="\h" _p=" #" else _u="\u@\h" _p=">" if test \( "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "${TERM#screen}" != "$TERM" \) -a -z "$EMACS" ; then _t="\[\e]2;\u@\h:\$(ppwd)\007\e]1;\h\007\]" fi fi # With full path on prompt PS1="${_t}${_u}:\w${_p} " so you can see how the variables are set, HTH Mike Blum

Hi blumini, I made 2 tests without result 1) # [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " 2) # [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " In the second test, I could not $ su - The problem was caused after I failed to isse following command as ROOT on terminal # ssh -X satimis@localhost then I hit 'Enter' after a warning saying something not found popup. Afterward I closed the terminal. My /etc/bashrc looks different to yours if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then umask 002 else umask 022 fi # are we an interactive shell? if [ "$PS1" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal stty erase `tput kbs` elif [ -x /usr/bin/wc ]; then if [ "`tput kbs|wc -c `" -gt 0 ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal stty erase `tput kbs` fi fi fi case $TERM in xterm*) if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"' fi ;; screen) if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen else PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\033\\"' fi ;; *) [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-default ;; esac # Turn on checkwinsize shopt -s checkwinsize [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " if [ "x$SHLVL" != "x1" ]; then # We're not a login shell for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do if [ -r "$i" ]; then . $i fi done fi fi # vim:ts=4:sw=4 B.R. satimis

Hi, what I was posting is not my complete /etc/bash.bashrc, but only an essential part of it. Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm because the case section in your bashrc refers to it (case $TERM in xterm). And I am not sure if logout/login is enough to make the new settings work or if you have to reboot. Mike Blum