On Thursday 22 March 2001 08:24, Stan Brown wrote: > I noticed that wehn I telnet inot my Debian bix from a machine > runign a color capable xtern, I get ls displays in color, however, > when I do ls on the console, I don't. > > How can I fix this? Add (or uncomment) the following lines to (in) your ~/.bashrc file. export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS If this doesn't work maybe you should hack /etc/profile.