On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Phillip Thelen <viirus92@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you tried adding this to your .bashrc? > > alias ls='ls --color=auto' > > basically just tells bash to execute "ls --color=auto" instead of just ls. > > Hope that helps you ;) Right now I only have a 'root' user and no normal shell users ...yet. I checked /root and there is not /root/.bash*. Am I missing something here? I even created a new user and in their home directory there is no .bashrc. What is wrong with my system or am I expected to manually create the .bashrc file using 'vim'?