check /etc/skel/.bashrc. You should be able to use that one as a base file. simply copy it to the /root direcory or the $Home Directory of a user. On 08/20/2010 02:50 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Phillip Thelen <viirus92@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Have you tried adding this to your .bashrc? >> >> alias ls='ls --color=auto' >> >> basically just tells bash to execute "ls --color=auto" instead of just ls. >> >> Hope that helps you ;) > Right now I only have a 'root' user and no normal shell users ...yet. > I checked /root and there is not /root/.bash*. Am I missing something > here? I even created a new user and in their home directory there is > no .bashrc. What is wrong with my system or am I expected to manually > create the .bashrc file using 'vim'? >