command prompt

[Thomas Cameron]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 02:38, freejay at tri-isys.com 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 at 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