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Re: color ls broken after 4.0 upgrade

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bomber)
Sun Oct 27 13:50:56 1996

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:47:22 -0800 (PST)
From: bomber@globalpac.com (bomber)
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, ralph muha wrote:

> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:22:29 -0500
> From: ralph muha <rmuha@minimal.com>
> Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: color ls broken after 4.0 upgrade
> Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:22:06 -0500
> Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> 
> it was working before the upgrade
> now it neither works on the consoles or in color xterms
> 
> rpm says that color-ls is installed
> there is no mention of color-ls in the upgrade log
> 
> running /usr/bin/color-ls doesn't work either, I
> just get an ordinary display
> 
did you try 
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
in your .bashrc?
once this was done, I simply logged out, and when I logged back in, bam!
color. :)
		bomber


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