Solaris

Is there a way I can add color to my prompts when I am navigating in Solaris 5.10? I have figured out how to add my alias's to the .profile file but adding color to just my prompts and not the output would be awesome.

What shell ? What colors ? How are you doing it on other platforms ?

I use Tectia to connect to Solaris and I have the prompt that ends in > and if I type an unknown command it says "ksh: not found" so I was hoping that I could add color to my prompt so that it stands out from the output from the commands I use. Is this possible?

yes, look here:
BASH Shell change the color of my shell prompt under Linux or UNIX

otoh, ls doesn't seem to take color option like in Linux

It is likely possible but you need to answer to some questions first.
What shell are you using ?
What colors do you want in the prompt and where ?
How are you doing it on other platforms ?

I am using Tectia 6.1. and I connect to Solaris 10. I am using the KSH shell. I have a .profile file that I use to store my aliases but when I use info I have found for KSH to change the color of the prompt, it does not work for me.

PS1="\[$(tput setaf 1)\]\u\[$(tput op)\]@\h:\w\$ " didnt work

I tried this site...
h ttp://www.understudy.net/custom.html

and I did the command echo $SHELL and got /bin/ksh
I tried the following command to add red only to my commands and not the output

PS1=$'\E[46;31m'`logname`@$'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>' #Custom prompt settings

and this didnt work either... I just want the hostname and the current working directory to be in Red while all output is in White.

what is the result of

Code:

echo $TERM