is someone has DIR_COLORS working well on his gentoo box? Mine seem buggy. Color about different components of fs (I mean symlink, files with exec right, folder) appear with correct colors, but colors based on extension (.exe, .tar, .gz, etc...) doesn't work. By "doesn't work", I mean it appears "gray" like normal color.

DIR_COLORS file is ok (or it seems), I have tried to login using different ways (virtual term in local or ssh local/network or screen) but it's always the same.
No clue 'bout it on Gentoo website as it seems.

Bug this?

don't know
did you tried su -
to login to root?
and
do you have something like this in your $HOME/. bashrc file
alias ls='ls --color=tty'

I have tried to log at root, of course, physically, on the box.
Su - doesn't work either.
I have alias ls="ls --color=auto" in my /etc/profile and no .bashrc

Very very strange, it's just like if Gentoo don't read my DIR_COLORS files 'til the end and stop before "extension" color list.

try this:
cp DIR_COLORS ~/.coloursrc
then:
eval `dircolors .coloursrc`

if it works, and you want it permanent then add the 'eval' line to your .bashrc (or if you don't have it just create it...)

aaah it works!
ty bulliver

can you explain me why it works, now?

he he,

I don't really know why it works and simply using DIR_COLORS doesn't, but I picked up the hint from here:

http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html

scroll down the page a bit, it's called "Colours with Linux terminals"
click on "Colour-ls", it's a .txt document, but it's got your answer.