Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:32 -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> It works fine here. Two things:
Actually, there is one more. Check your TERM variable. I use
gnome-terminal, which always sets TERM to 'xterm'. This is fine for
GNU/Linux boxes, but ssh'ing into OpenBSD requires that TERM be set to
'xterm-color'. 'wsvt25' should be used on OpenBSD for console logins.
May also be needed on FreeBSD, but haven't checked.
So, I did this in in ~/.kshrc:
# hack because gnome-terminal always does 'xterm' and I need 'xterm-xfree86'
if [ "$TERM" == "xterm" ]
then
export TERM=xterm-xfree86
fi
Again, this is not needed for GNU/Linux boxes, both 'xterm' and
'linux' (for console logins) work fine without the above. However,
using it doesn't hurt anything, so I set it up that way everywhere.
Jamie Strandboge
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