I want to turn off all colors schemes when I log onto my RedHat system. I have copied the dir_colors file to my home directory and modified that to turn colors off but it doesnt appear to be working.(sourced the file from within my .profile). Also, I do not want the colors in my vi sessions either.....am simplistic....like my white characters on black background! Can somebody help me?

Thanks in advance to all whom respond.

If you check your aliases, you'll probably find that ls is aliased to "ls --color=tty". You can unalias that, or remove it from your login scripts.

Also, I use /bin/vi instead of /usr/bin/vim, and I don't get colors. If I use /usr/bin/vim, I get color.

Try vim.org to get some info about how to turn it off...

Thanks for the help...both suggestions worked. Those colors were driving me mad