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Clobbered some init file for my user 'Guest'



On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> Can anyone tell me which initialization/environment file I clobbered
> using Red hat Linux 6.1/6.2?
> When I log in as root my prompt says:
> [root at rufus root]#
> 
> yet when I log in as 'Guest' I get
> 
> bash$

The prompt is set up in /etc/bashrc.  So if it is working for one user and
not another, you must have lost the broken user's ~/.bashrc, which calls
/etc/bashrc if it exists.

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