On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > Ryan Camick <ryan@endless.eu.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 12:21, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I wondered if this is caused by local setting: > >> > >> Phenomena I observe is when i call `ls' on a directory I see the > >> symlinks in my chosen color of cyan. However if I call > >> `ls .misc-snippets' > >> > >> Or any dot file that is a symlink it doesn't appear in > >> cyan, but in default color. > >> > >> If I call it like `ls -l .dot-file, then the cyan appears > >> > >> Going to a 7.3 machine I have running I see a direct ls like: > >> `ls .misc-snippets' does show the cyan. > > > > [~]$ mkdir test > > [~]$ cd test > > [test]$ ln -s ../.gnome-desktop > > [test]$ ls -al > > Works for me here. Symlink to .gnome-desktop shows in cyan as you > > describe. > > That isn't what I described. What you did works the same for me. > You called `ls' on a directory. The phenomena I described only shows > itself when `ls' is called directly on a dot file. > > Now try: > `cd test' > (List the symlink directly [by name] as I described) > > ls .gnome-desktop (NOTE: no -al) > > Does it show cyan? (I symlinked to a directory. After rereading the original message, I tried symlinking to a .filename instead. I am seeing the same behaviour described by Harry) The results are essentially the same for a .directory or .filename, when listed with ls and ls -d repectively, as noted here: $ ls .gnome-desktop Shows contents of symlinked directory or bold white filename $ ls -ld .gnome-desktop Shows bold cyan symlink pointing to bold blue ../.gnome-desktop $ ls -d .gnome-desktop Shows bold blue .gnome-desktop and does not indicate a symlink. $ ls -a Shows listing, including bold cyan .gnome-desktop indicating symlink > On the 7.3 I mentioned .. it does. Unfortunately I do not have a 7.3 system around, and I have no idea how to pull DIR_COLORS out of the fileutils rpm from 7.3 to look at it. > But not on the 8 > > Also compare DIR_COLORS to your RH7.3 system, and note that RH8 has an > > additional file, DIR_COLORS.xterm. Finally, you can check the > > environment variable which ultimately contains this info (LS_COLORS), > > comparing it also to RH7.3 > > .dir_colors is imported from the 7.3 machine Okay. I don't know of anything else to suggest, I'm sure you've looked into it fairly deeply yourself. $ eval `dircolors --sh "~/.dir_colors"` $ [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return If that fixes it, look at /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh Check changelogs on fileutils package? Good luck, -Ryan -- Powered by Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
