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Configuring terminal colors (the original BASH shell!)

I remember being able to configure the colors of my BASH terminal (outside of X), but am trying to remember how I did it. Seems like it was something like set term -background white -foreground red as one example, and with the same command stopping the screen from blanking with something like set term -blank 0 or something to that effect. Now, for the life of me, I seem to be having difficulty pulling it off. I dug up where someone mentioned that it was setterm -blank 0, but that proved to be incorrect. The man pages I've stumbled across are getting me no closer. What was the command again? I like to beat commands into Linux outside of X occasionally. Some things are actually easier and work better away from X.

Here's a little script I wrote not too long ago. Add it to your .bashrc

Code:

#Color Codes: 

#Black      0;30    Dark Gray    1;30 

#Red        0;31    Light Red    1;31 

#Green      0;32    Light Green  1;32 

#Brown      0;33    Yellow        1;33 

#Blue        0;34    Light Blue    1;34 

#Purple      0;35    Light Purple  1;35 

#Cyan        0;36    Light Cyan    1;36 

#Light Gray  0;37    White        1;37 

 

PROMPTCOLOR='\[\e[1;37m\]' 

COMMANDCOLOR='\[\e[0;37m\]' 

ROOTCOLOR='\[\e[1;31m\]' 

NORMALUSERCOLOR='\[\e[1;32m\]' 

HOSTNAMECOLOR='\[\e[1;35m\]' 

DIRECTORYCOLOR='\[\e[1;33m\]' 

 

### username ### 

if [ `whoami` = "root" ] 

        then USERCOLOR=$ROOTCOLOR 

        else USERCOLOR=$NORMALUSERCOLOR 

fi 

PS1=$USERCOLOR"\u" 

 

### hostname ### 

PS1=$PS1$PROMPTCOLOR@ 

PS1=$PS1$HOSTNAMECOLOR$(hostname -s) 

 

### working directory ### 

PS1=$PS1$PROMPTCOLOR" [" 

PS1=$PS1$DIRECTORYCOLOR"\w" 

PS1=$PS1$PROMPTCOLOR"]" 

 

### prompt end marker ### 

PS1=$PS1$USERCOLOR" \$ " 

 

### command color ### 

PS1=$PS1$COMMANDCOLOR

Oh, and let me know what you think. :)

Thanks! ;) ...though I remember doing it with a command, and then putting it in /etc/profile to make it permanent. I was also hoping to put a stop to it blanking out, for example if I'm reading a page full of text in less (and no, I cannot read faster! ).