Hello all...

I have what I thought was an easy question to answer but I've been searching forums and googling for about an hour now to no avail!

On a CentOS 5 server that is acting as a disaster recovery server, I have several other file systems mounted to it (2 x NFS 6 x CIFS) under /mnt/drmounts

After mounting up the filesystems and doing an ls -l /mnt/drmounts, 7 of the mounts (all 6 CIFS and 1 NFS) show up with a green block of colour round them.

Everything seems to work ok, but I would like to know what the green block of colour signifies as one of the mounts doesn't have it?!

Regards,
Gaz.

Enter this at the command line, and all will be revealed.

It's taken me about 3 hours to work this out as well - there's nothing helpful in the manpage.

It appears that the green background signifies a directory that is "other-writable" (it's denoted ow by dircolor)

I don't know if this will help you, but commenting out or removing entries in your DIR_COLORS entries will not disable them. Instead, it causes them to fall back to a default. In most cases, this default is fine, but in the case of other-writable directories(at least in CentOS) it is a hideous blue text with green highlighting/background. To fix this, I think I changed the values of the STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE, OTHER_WRITABLE, and STICKY to a less obnoxious value rather than delete/comment them out.