console font problems

[andrej hocevar <ah@siol.net>]

hey.
lately i've been playing a little with different fonts for the console.
using the command consolechars and specifying a valid filename (say,
/usr/share/consolefonts/GohaClassic-14.psf.gz) i've tried some out and
decided i liked this one for purely aestethical reasons.
so i put a link into /etc/rc2.d/ with a number that wasn't taken (15) to a
script defining that font: consolechars -f
/usr/share/consolefonts/Goha-14.psf.gz.
now what happens, i get the specified font at bootup but it works
normally only in the first vc. when i log into another one and
type ls, i get only those entries without colour. the coloured ones are
black, hence invisible, or i get a weird output in say blue for
directories but it's not possible to read it!

what's wrong? is there another method for doing this?

thanks,
andrej