From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 23:54: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B922B37B404 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F9243E65 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fh31415@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 4603 invoked by uid 0); 28 Sep 2002 06:53:56 -0000 Received: from b115138.adsl.hansenet.de (HELO host1.myhost.mydomain) (62.109.115.138) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 28 Sep 2002 06:53:56 -0000 Received: from host1.myhost.mydomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host1.myhost.mydomain (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8S6twxP000612 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 08:55:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from azure@host1.myhost.mydomain) Received: (from azure@localhost) by host1.myhost.mydomain (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g8S6twqE000611 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 08:55:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 08:55:58 +0200 From: Frank Heitmann To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm and colors Message-ID: <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020928005410.A37493@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020928005410.A37493@insightbb.com>; from bryanc2000@insightbb.com on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > How do i set the colors so when I just use "ls" I get the color > directories and the rest of colors? I just want the basic colors > that I can get without having to do alot of configuring. Have you set your TERM environment variable to 'xterm-color' ? The way to do this differs depending on the shell you use, if it's bash just type: export TERM=xterm-color if it's csh type: setenv TERM xterm-color (There are more shells, look at the man page of your shell for more details!) Hope that helps, Cheers and Good Morning :) Frank P.S. I have read that in new versions of FreeBSD the TERM variable is set to xterm-color by default, but I have forgotten if this is already done in -stable or if this is done in -current - and I don't know which version of FreeBSD you are running :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message