Re: PLEASE don't clear tty1 on boot! (lilo,init,rc.d and other related issues)

[Alan Cox]

>   to a plain red colour (REDhat, see? :) would help SO MUCH to make
>   commands and their output become a lot more distiguishable.  Why not
>   a different colour on every terminal (and pts)?

There is something user interface people call 'Angry Fruit Salad'. Colour
in general is bad if overused. Also remember they may be connecting from
a box with a mono monitor( red looks black and other stuff )

>   the PS1 environment variable to make it coloured?  My suggestion is
>   something like:
> 
>   [ $SHELL == "/bin/bash" -o $SHELL == "/bin/bash2" ] &&
>     PS1='\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h \W]\\$\[\033[m\] ' &&
>     export PS1

This is wrong you need to query terminfo for the strings for a given terminal,
out of the box distributions have to work in all sorts of setups not just
all Linux

Alan

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