[wplug] color ls output

Brian S. Woolstrum woolstrum at cmu.edu
Tue May 13 16:00:09 EDT 2003


instead of just "su" try "su -"



On Mon, 12 May 2003, Brian O'Connor wrote:

>
> I am currently running 2 linux boxes and am having issues with color 'ls' output on both of them
>
> On my Suse linux 7.1 machine, when I remotely ssh into the machine and log on as a regular user, the ls output is in color.
> However when I su to become root, the ls output is no longer in color automatically. I can manually get color output by doing 'ls --color', but I have to type that every time. anybody know of a way to change this?
>
> My second box is running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. on this machine the ls output is never in color by default. I can only get color ls output by specifying it with 'ls --color' .
>
> I would like to have all ls output all color, all the time
> any ideas would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
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