odd mesage when root logs in?

[lugoteehalt]

When root logs in the line '-bash: some: unknown command or filename' or words to that effect appears above the # prompt.

Previously it was giving a line about 'smegma', the name of a user, and then returning to the login prompt, but fixed this with using Knoppix to loose 'smegma' as the last entry in root's line in /etc/password - happened to have noticed this file was strange for no known reason. It may be relevant that most of the things in this file were allocated sh as the shell, not bash.

How can I loose the 'some ....' line?

Thanks any help.

[bigtomrodney]

Check /etc/passwd. I would say that there is a hyphen before bash or something else preventing bash from loading. Can you post the one line referring to root here? Post the line in its complete state.

[lugoteehalt]

Check /etc/passwd. I would say that there is a hyphen before bash or something else preventing bash from loading. Can you post the one line referring to root here? Post the line in its complete state.

Thanks.

This is what it says now:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

This is what it said before, when root couldn't log in, I think I remember correctly:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:smegma

In the rest of /etc/passwd I replaced the many /bin/sh with /bin/bash.

When root logged in got, immediately after the message of the day:

-bash: Some: command not found

Got rid of the Some by simply re-commenting a line that should have been commented in .bashrc.

However the strange - remains in front of bash:

Here's how it behaves, before I got rid of the Some:

debian:~# help arg
-bash: help: no help topics match `arg'.  Try `help help' or `man -k arg' or `info arg'.
debian:~# bash
bash: Some: command not found
debian:~# shell
bash: shell: command not found
debian:~#
debian:~# exit
debian:~# shell
-bash: shell: command not found

Is it possible to loose the -?