How to change "-bash-4.2#" in terminal?

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Recently I bought a VPS and installed openSUSE 13.1 minimal.
but the prompt just shows static “-bash-4.2#” like this:
http://i.imgur.com/YYtBHTj.png

instead of the usual default I found in my other boxes:
http://i.imgur.com/efzOn2a.png
it has red root name, last access time, showing current path etc

how do I change this? Its confusing and bothering me so much.

there are no ~/.bashrc in any of my boxes to copy from each other.

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Hi,

Im not sure about VPS since those things might have their own policy about some things including the prompt but if it is a minimal install then you can just try to create a ~/.bashrc if you like and the prompt is defined by the value of “$PS1” you can try

echo "$PS1"

In openSUSE the value of PS1 is defined in the file

/etc/bash.bashrc

Assuming of course you’re using bash as your log-in shell.

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Thanks.

But im not sure why, the prompt was automagically get in shape after I finished setting up my webserver stack and reboot.

I think it got pulled somewhere as part of package dependencies but not sure which was it.