Solaris 10 - 'ls' green for root user only


 
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Old 12-27-2014
Solaris 10 - 'ls' green for root user only

Welcome to all.

Have an issue and looking for help so hope someone is able to give me some clues.

I prepared some shell scripts with coloured output to help other guys to have more automated task. Not sure if I did this but now whenever I use 'ls' command for root user every output in terminal stays green. I can of course give 'tput sgr0' and make it black again but it will come back once 'ls' command is used. This happens only for root user. I checked env variables (TERM=vt100) to see if there is something in there - nothing. I compared them with users vars - nothing. I checked .profile and .bashrc of root user - nothing. There is nothing in aliases as well. Only 'ls -F' and looks like ls does not support --color option.

Anything else can I check?
# 2  
Old 12-27-2014
The most likely reason is your customized "ls" fails to revert the rendition to normal.

What says "type ls" ?
# 3  
Old 12-27-2014
I will check and post output on Tuesday cos do not have remote access. Thanks for feedback. I just installed solaris 10 on my virtual machine at home so will have comparison. If i am not mistaken I tested that with: 'which ls' and output was: '/usr/bin/ls'.
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Old 12-27-2014
Is that "always green" background or foreground? Does it depend on the last file listed? Or on your application's exit? Please post the output of ls -la | od.
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Old 12-27-2014
What's the output from 'alias'?
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Old 12-27-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by TiedCone
If i am not mistaken I tested that with: 'which ls' and output was: '/usr/bin/ls'.
The "which" command is useless. It only looks to the PATH so doesn't take into account aliases, builtins or functions. It won't help figuring out what is actually executed when you type a command.
The portable way is "type command".
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Old 12-27-2014
Ok then. Like I said, on Tue I will answer all question.

Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Is that "always green" background or foreground? Does it depend on the last file listed? Or on your application's exit? Please post the output of ls -la | od.
Only fg (text) is green, even along with the shell prompt after 'ls' is used. It does not depend on last files listed. It happens right after the first use of 'ls'.

Quote:
Originally Posted by achenle
What's the output from 'alias'?
If not mistaken only 2 aliases are there:
ll='ls -la'
ls='ls -F'

I checked that while searching to solve this issue.
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