[wellylug] console question

[Andrej]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:28, Lyndsay Mountfort wrote:
> My sister has thrown a question at me for which I can't
> remember the answer. She has set up her first linux box
> (Fedora Core 1, no X, webserver / development / practise
> machine), and wants to know how to change the console settings
> to something more readable than the default multicoloured text
>  with lots of unreadable blue in it. Can someone remind me how
> to change it, and where the settings are to make it permanent?
Find (and remove) in either her personal set-up files (e.g 
~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ...) or some of the global ones
(e.g. /etc/profile or in the /etc/profile.d/ directory) the
definition for ls' alias ... many distros re-define it to
use --color=always or --color=auto. If you can't easily
locate them just unalias it from her configuration, or
redefine it to --color=never

Cheers