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In article <Pine.OSF.3.93.961021122629.8383B-100000@sparrow.qut.edu.au>,
	ALIA MCCUTCHEON <n1569325@sparrow.qut.edu.au> writes:
> 
> Hiya Stan,
> I also had this interesting problem when i tried installing RedHat...
> I figured out that if you copy the DIR_COLORS program onto a disk then
> once you've installed RedHat put it in the /bin directory and then in your
> profile (/etc/profile) put the lines:
> 
> eval DIR_COLORS
> alias ls="ls $LS_COLORS"
> 
> or something to that effect.... and you will get the pretty colours you
> like... dont take my word for this... try it out....

Hi,
I think what you need to do is:

1: Ensure you have color_xterm or rxvt compiled.
2: Get the latest Gnu Fileutils package (if you do not have it installed)
   as it contains the colour ls as standard now.
   The home of fileutils is 
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ 
    but I think is also on sunsite.anu.edu.au

3: in your .profile, or .bash_profile the following string:

eval `/opt/local/gnu/bin/dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS`
Of course I am on a sun, so the path above is relevant only to that - 
set your path to where the dircolors app lives...

I am careful on my Sun to also test for the existance of an important
binary like ls as well - if my /gnu partition does not mount, 
then it falls back to the traditional ls...

You can also edit the /etc/DIR_COLORS file as a local dotfile:

$HOME/.DIR_COLORS
and set the colours how you like...

rachel

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