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by **John Prokope** » Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:08:12

Can someone tell me why when I start an xterm as my normal user account
my dir_colors are not used but when I "su" dir_colors are used?

thanks

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by **Dowe Kell** » Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:53:23

>Can someone tell me why when I start an xterm as my normal user account
>my dir_colors are not used but when I "su" dir_colors are used?

>thanks

perhaps root's .bashrc has something like

alias ls="ls --color=auto"

in it.

Quote:>"The bus came by and I got on
>thats when it all began ...."

Was Cowboy Neil at the wheel? :-))

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by **David Efflan** » Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:55:03

>Can someone tell me why when I start an xterm as my normal user account
>my dir_colors are not used but when I "su" dir_colors are used?

Maybe you are trying to set an alias in ~/.bash_profile (or /etc/profile)
instead of in ~/.bashrc (or /etc/bashrc) where it belongs.

Simply running an xterm does not necessarily do a login. But running a
shell command does read the appropriate rc file(s). So any aliases should
be set in the shell's rc file, not the login or profile.

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