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MrIncredible
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject: No directory colors |
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I have searched everywhere...
Theres a /etc/bash/bashrc that does all kinds of fancy things
But I cant get this automated... everytime I have to run
"dircolors"
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"alias ls='ls --color'"
Manually! What is the correct way to fix this? |
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:00 am Post subject: |
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You could put those commands in the /etc/bash/bashrc and they should be run automagically for you...
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MrIncredible
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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Tried that
Also ~/.bashrc
Doesnt work! I put as the first command "dircolors"
and then "alias ls='ls --color '
Bash still doesnt do anything.
I've tried manuall going "export LS_COLORS=waddahwaddah"
as dircolors do, in bashrc
Still nothing..
Isn't this supposed to work "off-the-shelf"? |
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TheRAt
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it works off the shelf here...
do you have a ~/.bash_profile
What terminal(s) have you tried to get this to work? or is this on the console ?
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MrIncredible
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, I just got X running and I see it's fine in all my x terminals...
Just the plain text consoles vt/0 .. 6 |
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TheRAt
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If you look at man bash you will find the order of file execution for various methods of starting a shell.. I think you are missing something in one of the listed rc files in the bash man page that that is preventing colors for being used by default...
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krakrjak
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It is also a problem with new installs for the root user. Usually if you create new users using the -m option then they will get all the files from /etc/skel however on gentoo installations the root user is left out in the cold. try this cd /root cp /etc/skel[.][!.]* .
That should put the gentoo defaults in even for the root user and when root logs in he should have colors. Also the ls --colors is ls --color=auto|always|none.
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MrIncredible
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Aww! Stunning! That must be it...
I never bothered adding other users.. yet!
How about we get this fixed/included in the gentoo install manual? |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
not an installation problem
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