From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 12:19:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFB737B404 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7366F20F05; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:19:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:19:52 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Morsal Rodbay Cc: Brent , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no colors when ssh to fbsd Message-ID: <20020222121951.A18898@ninja1.internal> References: <012301c1bbd8$ac4f6920$37b4a8c0@pretorian> <20020222205438.A41313@darius.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020222205438.A41313@darius.2y.net>; from "morsal@swipnet.se" on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at = 08:54:38PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I was wonder what i have to do to get colors to (like in a linux ssh term ) > > in Freebsd...just curious > > u have to set your TERM to xterm-color... put the following in /etc/profile > > TERM=xterm-color; export TER I feel like a tratior for saying this, but TERM=linux will generally result in better colors from dialog boxes. Anyone know why? -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message