diff --git a/chapter04/settingenviron.xml b/chapter04/settingenviron.xml
index 3b18d42da..4f277815b 100644
--- a/chapter04/settingenviron.xml
+++ b/chapter04/settingenviron.xml
@@ -157,17 +157,25 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
      <para>Several commercial distributions add a non-documented instantiation
      of <filename>/etc/bash.bashrc</filename> to the initialization of
-     <command>bash</command>. This file has the potential to modify the lfs
+     <command>bash</command>. This file has the potential to modify the
+     <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>
      user's envirnment in ways that can affect the building of critical LFS
-     packages. To make sure the lfs user's envronment is clean, check for the
+     packages. To make sure the <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>
+     user's envronment is clean, check for the
      presence of <filename>/etc/bash.bashrc</filename> and, if present, move it
-     out of the way.  As the root user, run:</para>
+     out of the way.  As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+     user, run:</para>
 
-     <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mv -v /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/bash.bashrc.NOUSE</userinput></screen> 
+     <screen role="nodump"><userinput>[ ! -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] || mv -v /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/bash.bashrc.NOUSE</userinput></screen> 
 
-     <para>After use of the lfs user is finished at the end of <xref
+     <para>After use of the lfs user is finished at the beginning of <xref
      linkend="chapter-chroot-temporary-tools"/>, you can restore
-     <filename>/etc/bash.bashrc</filename> (if desired).</para>
+	 <filename>/etc/bash.bashrc</filename> (if desired).</para>
+
+     <para>Note that the LFS Bash package we will build in
+     <xref linkend="ch-system-bash"/> is not configured to load or execute
+     <filename>/etc/bash.bashrc</filename>, so this file is useless on a
+     completed LFS system.</para>
   </important>
 
   <para>Finally, to have the environment fully prepared for building the