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I am using RHEL5. When I list the contents of log folder using ls i see acpid highlighted (not font colour) in yellow.
so can anyone tell me what the highlight means and what other colours and they resemble if highlighted. If i am not mistaken i saw one highlighted in red colour as well.
It's is almost certainly being detected by ls as a special file type of some kind, and is displaying it according to that filetype's dircolors setting. If you can figure out what kind of file it's being seen as then if you want you should be able to adjust the setting.
I'm going to make a wild guess that it's probably a compressed archive of some kind.
ls shows colour according to the LS_COLORS variable. To see the encoding type: set | grep COLOR. I don't quite understand which code represents which colour, but you can get an idea. Also, try command: file /var/log/acpi, to do a bit backward engineering in matching codes to file types.
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