In vi/vim it is ":syntax off" that turns it off. If you are talking about with the "ls" command use "ls --color=never" to get rid of the colors for a single command or alias ls to include the --color switch. Fred -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of inode0 Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:36 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Changing systems so all text shows as white not multicolouredtext. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:07:30 +0000, Andrew.Bridgeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Andrew.Bridgeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am in the process of making allot of changes to our existing Redhat > machines we run version 7.1/7.3 8.0 WS and AS. It is sending my eyes funny > looking at multicoloured text all the time especially the Blue text which i > can hardly read. Is there a way of changing all of my machines so they show > text as white instead, i realised this is a small issue but it would really > help me know end at the moment. Any help is much appreciated. On RHEL 3 this appears to be globally controlled in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh and /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh. I'm not sure about older flavors. Something like "which ls" or "alias ls" should reveal the cause and if you want to undo colors only for one user probably best to change the ls family of aliases in your account. John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
