Error message on opening up a csh terminal in Fedora 9 Unknown colorls variable `ca'.

mrground · 07-31-2008, 10:24 AM

Whenever I open a terminal in Fedora 9 I'm reciving the error message "Unknown colorls variable `ca'."
I'm using the csh environment because I need that to install an analysis program iraf. I don't mind the problem except that when I type the install command for the program I get the same error message and it dosn't install. Does anyone have any ideas?

Kris

colucix · 07-31-2008, 10:48 AM

This is a bug on Fedora 9 related to the dircolors command. This command is executed by /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh and is meant to set the LS_COLORS environment variable. As a workaround you can put a custom .dir_colors file in your home directory:

Code:

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS $HOME/.dir_colors

then edit the .dir_colors file and comment out the line with CAPABILITY. See man dircolors for some details.

mrground · 07-31-2008, 11:21 AM

Thanks a lot!! It worked perfectly.

praveencusat · 08-01-2008, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

Code:

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS $HOME/.dir_colors

then edit the .dir_colors file and comment out the line with CAPABILITY. See man dircolors for some details.

The following worked for me in gnome,

Code:

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm $HOME/.dir_colors.xterm

Quote:

then edit the .dir_colors.xterm file and comment out the line with CAPABILITY.

Thanks