I'm looking for an EASY way to change:
- background color
- foreground color
in text mode.

For instance, I start Linux in text mode, I login and I see white text on black screen. What changes should I make to .bashrc to see black text on red screen (for example?)

I'm using:
Red Hat Release 5.0 (Hurricanne)
Kernel 2.0.32
GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1)

Hi

Do you mean changing the prompt and stuff?

I found this article useful:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-tip-prompt/

Hope this helps.

1337_penguin

Is this the virtual console screen, or are you using a terminal emulator in X?

I tried what they said, but it didn't work:
PS1="\[\e]2;\u@\H \w\a\e[32;1m\]>\[\e[0m\] "
my PS1 became:
\e]2;root@\H /etc/X11/fvwm2\a\e[32;1m>\e[0m

and for:
PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\u@\H > \[\e[0m\]"
I got:
\e[32;1mroot@\H > \e[0


This, however, does work:
PS1="[\[\033[31;1m\u\[\033[0m@\[\033[34;1m\h\[\033[0m \[\033[34m\w\[\033[0m]>> "

I'm reffering to a terminal that is started from inittab, like this:
1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1. I don't have a X interface at all.

Is there a script that will take background and foreground colors as input and genereate the sequence?

If I change the PS1 background, it doesn't change the tty background, which is what I wanted in the first place.