On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:13 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> When I do:
> ls /bin/ping
> I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
> anything special about its permissions. What's up? I ask because I've
> installed another program recently that has the same color display, and
> I'm trying to figure out why.
>
> Richard
>

Same here. Do : ls /bin/* and you will see he programs hat display
like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.

I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
a special color.
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On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:48 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:13 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> > When I do:
> > ls /bin/ping
> > I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
> > anything special about its permissions. What's up? I ask because I've
> > installed another program recently that has the same color display, and
> > I'm trying to figure out why.
> >
> > Richard
> >
>
> Same here. Do : ls /bin/* and you will see he programs hat display
> like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.
>
> I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
> a special color.

What they have in common is there Access is 4755 while the rest I think
are 0755
>


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Aaron Konstam wrote:

I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
a special color.


Aaron, did you receive my reply to the OP question?

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/410704.html
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:48:27 -0600, AK (Aaron) wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:13 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> > When I do:
> > ls /bin/ping
> > I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
> > anything special about its permissions. What's up? I ask because I've
> > installed another program recently that has the same color display, and
> > I'm trying to figure out why.
> >
> > Richard
> >
>
> Same here. Do : ls /bin/* and you will see he programs hat display
> like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.
>
> I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
> a special color.

Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:53:56 -0600, AK (Aaron) wrote:

> > Same here. Do : ls /bin/* and you will see he programs hat display
> > like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.
> >
> > I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
> > a special color.
>
> What they have in common is there Access is 4755 while the rest I think
> are 0755

That's only half the truth, because white-on-red is not equal to black-on-red.
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On 12/22/2011 02:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:

Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.


Yes, but only if you happen to understand the numeric codes and how they
interact. For somebody like me, who has no need to know that type of
thing, it's simply gibberish. That's why my .bashrc contains this line:


alias ls=ls

That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that
everybody wants.

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On 22.12.2011 23:52, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 02:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.
>
> Yes, but only if you happen to understand the numeric codes and how they interact. For somebody like me, who has
> no need to know that type of thing, it's simply gibberish. That's why my .bashrc contains this line:
>
> alias ls=ls
>
> That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that everybody wants

do colors hurt you?
what is so different in understanding a hdnaful of colors?

what is so different to understand a blinking red link is borken and
why do you think this is not helpful?

"somebody like me who has no need to know" sounds not smart to say it polite


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On 12/22/2011 2:52 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

That's why my .bashrc contains this line:

alias ls=ls

That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that
everybody wants.


Joe:

My F14 Linux box is getting repaired so I can't test ... what is this
alias changing about 'ls'? I don't remember seeing any factory-setting
.bashrc that has ls aliased to ls with some options?


Paul

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On 2011/12/22 14:52, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 12/22/2011 02:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:

Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.


Yes, but only if you happen to understand the numeric codes and how they
interact. For somebody like me, who has no need to know that type of thing, it's
simply gibberish. That's why my .bashrc contains this line:

alias ls=ls

That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that everybody wants.


alias lss=/bin/ls
alias ll=/bin/ls -l
alias lla=/bin/ls -lA

And so forth. Why stop before you're done. Every time I find I am using a
particular ls incantation fairly frequently I make a new alias.

(For Windows types "alias dir=/bin/ls -ld". Which is a restatement of the old
saw, "A good programmer can write FORTRAN in any language.")

{^_-}
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On 2011/12/22 16:59, Reindl Harald wrote:



On 22.12.2011 23:52, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 12/22/2011 02:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:

Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.


Yes, but only if you happen to understand the numeric codes and how they interact. For somebody like me, who has
no need to know that type of thing, it's simply gibberish. That's why my .bashrc contains this line:

alias ls=ls

That gets rid of the colors that somebody "helpfully" decided that everybody wants


do colors hurt you?
what is so different in understanding a hdnaful of colors?

what is so different to understand a blinking red link is borken and
why do you think this is not helpful?


Now THAT one is indeed a borken specification in the ls colorization code.
Blinking anything makes me want to find the person who perpetrated it and
wreck unimaginable havoc upon his soon to be cooling body.

{^_^} and about this one, I'm only about 10% kidding.
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