Re: RH 8.0 color ls alias problems

["Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey fmonkey net>]

On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:19 PM, Michael Wardle wrote:

> Hi Adam
>
> When you perform an "su", be sure to add the "-l" or "-" option.  This
> will cause "su" to log you in as root, which causes your shell (bash) 
> to
> read /etc/bashrc, which in turn sources the script files in
> /etc/profile.d.  If you do not add the "-l" option, "su" simply changes
> your user to root without doing most of the normal initialization.

I always do; my mistake for not explicitly specifying this.  :)

> Doing this will run colorls.sh in a subshell, so all changes to the
> shell's environment will be lost when the script exits.  If you 
> manually
> want to run colorls.sh, try sourcing it like so:
> # . /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
> or
> # source /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh

I realize this problem, but in order to get the debug output I had to 
run it under a -x shell.  BTW, a "source" or a "." of the colorls.sh 
file also does not gather in the "ll" or "l." aliases.  I should have 
pointed out that the aliases for "cp", "mv", "rm", and "vi" ARE 
imported.

ahp

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