Lo all,

I've just upgraded to 12.2 on my desktop (it wasn't used before so nothing changed by me).
Anyway, all is up and running, I log in via kdm.
The bash prompt was crap, so I've changed it to user@hostwd (this is probably irrelevant).
However, I have a problem with ls. It isn't showing colours or putting symbols after filetypes.
Now, on my laptop (slack 10.2), ls looks at LS_OPTIONS and LS_COLORS. So. /etc/profile didn't set
any aliases up.
12.2 does set aliases up in /etc/profile.d/coreutils-dircolors.sh, but when I shell out, the alias command has no list. When I source /etc/profile, all works as it should.
I realise /etc/profile isn't run from a gui shell, but it does copy the environment, iirc. the LS* do have values when I do a set:

LS_COLORS='rs=0:d <snip>
LS_OPTIONS=' -F -b -T 0 --color=auto '

bash is:

john@darkstar:/etc/profile.d$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

coreutils-dircolors.sh is being run as I edited it to do alias > /tmp/FOO and it gives output as per the alias setup in the script (although the variabes aren't expanded ie show as $FOO).

~/.bashrc is:

john@darkstar:~$ cat .bashrc
PS1="\u@\h:\w$ "
eval `dircolors -b`

I've grepped every file in and under /etc for alias, with nothing of interest. strings of /bin/ls show LS_COLORS, but no LS_OPTION, fwiw. I'm out of ideas.

Any thoughts much appreciated...

John

By "GUI shell" I presume you mean Konsole.

From the menu choose "Settings | Configure Konsole", in the "Session" page select the "Shell" session, change the command in the "Execute" field to "bash -l" (no quotes).

Heh. Well it's rxvt. trying all the terms I get:

rxvt - not work
terminal - not work
konsole - does work! The execute above is just "bash"
xterm - not work

I never had to had options to rxvt in the past, tho I will look into it. It seems strange that bash seems to be losing the set up aliases.
Stranger still that no one else seems to be having the problem...

John

rxvt -ls

This is the same as for Konsole.

Aye, I got the above after your clue. It works, but it seems a bit of a hack.
Now I'm just curious as to what's changed.

Thank you for your time.

John

1. There is no hack. This is the way it works. The '-ls' option is not a fancy backdoor.

2. In your original post you did not tell us what terminal emulator you are using. And you still have not mentioned how you launched rxvt yet. It's no good manners keeping others guessing what you are doing.

Best regards,
Guanx

1) On the contrary, this isn't the way it works. On my laptop I have no need of any switches whatsoever. ergo it is a hack to get it to work.

2)Given that 75% of emulators exhibit the problem, I should say it hasn't got anything to do with the particular emulator. Of course, needing to know how the emulator is launched presumes
a certain level of knowledge on my part. Perhaps I haven't got it. Anyway, bizarrely enough, it's in X and I launch it from a menu option. Anyway, not to worry, thanks anyway. I got it working.