Bash issues on reinstall

[Bob Kinney]

--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:

> From: Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it>
> Subject: Re: Bash issues on reinstall
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 11:44 AM
> Bob Kinney wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how to avoid this issue?  I
> don't think I'm doing
> > anything different from past upgrades.
> 
> You have probably deleted too much from your home dir.
> 
> Have a look inside /etc/skel, it contains the files which
> are
> copied to the homedir of just created users.
> You will find some bash related files, which you could be
> missing.
> Copy them to your dir and adjust the owner.
> Then relogin (or "su -l myuser").
> 
> -- 
>    Roberto Ragusa    mail at
> robertoragusa.it
> -- 


I reinstalled again, keeping the existing home directory,
and it applied the aliases and prompts as expected.  I
still am not sure where things went awry, but I'm not
too worried about it.

BTW, my /etc/skel is empty.

Thanks for the advice.

--bob