Determining which shell is in use
 

I'm guessing i'm going for the stupidest question of the month award, but:

How do i work out which shell i'm working in? I know that the default shell is set for ever user, and kuser shows me what shell is used for any particular user, but i notice that if you working as myself and i change to root (via su) coloring and so forth disappears (as in file type highlighting).

How do i check which shell i'm in, and is this change in color an intentional mode change ??

Re: Determining which shell is in use
 

Hi chakkerz,
try the ps command.
If you look at the output below it shows you that bash is the shell running for both users (gabe and root).
also "echo $SHELL" will tell you what shell is running.
As far as the colors go, I'm not sure what the problem is. try typing export to see if the shell variable LS_COLORS is set or if the shell variable COLORS is set. you can do this by typing:
echo $LS_COLORS
echo $COLORS

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[root@koso gabe]# whoami
root
[root@koso gabe]# ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
860 pts/0 00:00:00 su
861 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
1193 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
[root@koso gabe]# exit
exit
[gabe@koso gabe]$ whoami
gabe
[gabe@koso gabe]$
[gabe@koso gabe]$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
818 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
1195 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
[gabe@koso gabe]$
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--gabe

Ahh ... sweet ... i knew it had to be something simple ... Thanks for that.