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Jarhead
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 Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: root terminal colors[solved] |
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My regular user has different colored text for the various kinds of files in the terminal, but my root user does not. Is there a way to get root to have the different text too? Thanks.
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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I'm assuming that root doens't have colors when you use su. In that case if you want colors do this after you su:
| Code: | | source /etc/profile |
If you want to generally set colors for your xterm/aterm or whatever you need to create a .Xdefaults in the home of the user (in this case root) and specify what colors you want.
There should be defaults however, so I think the source /etc/profile is what you are looking for. |
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bosozoku
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Jarhead
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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running "source /etc/profile" didn't do it. What would I change my /etc/bashrc to? I see where the colors are taken away from root, but I'm no programmer and commenting out the line makes the terminal displeased with me.
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baak6
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Add
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alias ls='--color=tty'
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in /etc/profile and do
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source /etc/profile
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bosozoku
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hum this is not very proper !
Edit your .bashrc and add an alias for ls.
And add this line alias ls="ls --color=auto"
Then you can do a source ~/.bashrc
Finally when you will login as root with su - , ls will do ls --color=auto.
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Jarhead
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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That did it. Thank you for your help.
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Tamerz
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| Ok but how do you keep the color after exiting and using su again with out doing source ~/.bashrc every single time? |
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trossachs
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes I have EXACTLY this prob. When you exit the shell, the changes disappear. Any clues? |
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Tamerz
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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I added | Code: | alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l" |
to /etc/profile and it works fine. Someone above said that isn't the proper way but nobody seems to know the proper way so this is working for me. |
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trossachs
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Have just added this line and it hasn't worked. Did you have to restart something; although unlikely? |
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trossachs
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Sorted, I added this to a new file:
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