I have completely followed the instruction in the LFS-6.3 book and created my LFS system. After rebooting when i logged inside the LFS system I found that instead of showing the usual root@lfs it displayed
-bash-3.2 Please help

Try adding this (or changing it if it's already present) to your .bashrc file under your home directory.

PS1="[\u@\h:\W, \@, \d]> "


PS1 stands for your prompt. Everything that follows are options for the PS1 variable. Here is a link that describes the available options. http://www.freebsddiary.org/prompt.php

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Thanks for the help

hi,
do the following .
if /root directory doesn't exist make one else continue.

vi .bash_profile

edit it with below.


# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
ulimit -n 63536
ulimit -u 32768
export PATH
unset USERNAME


save and exit

again

vi .bashrc

edit with below

# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc

save and exit

you are done
try re-login your issue is resolved.

Why are you using such an old version of LFS/BASH?

LFS now stands at 7.4 and BASH at 4.2.42 I would STRONGLY recommend you update before you go any further.

in 2008 that was quite new

That would not have resolved the problem

the answer was in post 2, posted way back in 2008

further more, I don't understand what the means

and when asking someone to edit a file, give the full path

vi .bash_profile, edits the file in the current dir, you have no idea what dir they are in

also be careful with vi{m},, some people endup rebooting their machine because they have no idea how to use vi{m}


edit, actually, I miss read it,
I see what you were doing, assumes PS1 is in /etc/bashrc

still, that probably wouldn't work ( actually not certain about 3.2 / LFS 6.x)
/etc/bash.bashrc is the correct file

Whoops didn't notice the date just that there was a new post in the thread my bad.

I saw bash 3.2 and LFS and got excited at the thought of working out just how the hell they managed to mess that up
Then I saw the date

Yes, someone necro-bumped...

LOL Love that expression!