terminal colors

["Brian Fallik" <bfallik@attbi.com>]

Hi.  I'm having problems getting colors to appear in my BASH prompt in Woody
(3.0).  This is on a fresh install I just finished today.  I've made very
few changes to the system so far.

When I ssh (protocol v2) into my debian server, the prompt is monochrome.
I've tried to export the TERM variable several times using xterm-color,
linux, xterm-debian, and xtermc in .bashrc and .bash_profile.  I've also
tried these same settings in the terminal-type string setting in putty.
Nothing works.

However, once I'm ssh'ed into the server, if I su to the same account the
bash prompt is in color.  echo $TERM produces the same output (the putty
setting) in both cases.

Any suggestion on how to fix this?  I've scoured google, google groups, and
debianhelp.org to no avail.  What are other good resources I can use to
resolve this?

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Thanks,
brian