[SOLVED] What is -bash-4.1$ ?

grahamb314 · 06-18-2013, 09:59 AM

When I login I see this:

-bash-4.1$

usually is is username@server$

I was moving my home directory and deleted it but I remade it with mkdir however there were probably some hidden files I deleted inside the folder?

How can I solve this and related issues I may see?

szboardstretcher · 06-18-2013, 10:05 AM

Correct. You lost your .bash_profile and .bashrc files.

If you'd like to mess around with re-creating it, there are plenty of references out there.

Here are some bash prompts: http://www.maketecheasier.com/8-usef...pts/2009/09/04

grahamb314 · 06-18-2013, 10:22 AM

Any idea how I would re-create them?

szboardstretcher · 06-18-2013, 10:29 AM

what have you tried? or what guides have you tried?

grim76 · 06-18-2013, 10:30 AM

Take a look at /etc/skel usually the files you need are held in this file location.

Code:

/etc/skel $ ls -alh
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 13 12:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 99 root root 4.0K Jun 11 20:46 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  220 Jan 11 00:34 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.2K Feb  8 20:24 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  675 Jan 11 00:34 .profile

Make sure that you copy these files and do not move them.

John VV · 06-18-2013, 02:42 PM

If this is the ancient RHEL 4.1
then it will not support any of the new CPU's
rhel4 is eight (8) years old .

Madhu Desai · 06-18-2013, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grahamb314

When I login I see this:

-bash-4.1$

usually is is username@server$

I was moving my home directory and deleted it but I remade it with mkdir however there were probably some hidden files I deleted inside the folder?

How can I solve this and related issues I may see?

Create a folder in /home directory for user. here i take an example of user Harry

As superuser do:

1.Create a folder for user harry

Code:

# mkdir -p /home/Harry

2.create .bashrc_profile and .bashrc files in /home/Harry

Code:

# cat .bash_profile
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
	. ~/.bashrc
fi
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH

Code:

# cat .bashrc
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bashrc
fi

3. Set owner and group of directory

Code:

# chown -R harry:harry /home/Harry

4.Assign newly created directory to Harry

Code:

# usermod -m -d /home/Harry harry

You are done.