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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:21:24 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        LOA Maine mailing list <brentb@loa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash shell environment   & colors
Message-ID:  <20020223132124.GA647@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <003801c1ba3b$215463a0$37b4a8c0@pretorian>
References:  <003801c1ba3b$215463a0$37b4a8c0@pretorian>

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On 2002-02-20 13:19, LOA Maine mailing list wrote:
> Im using FreeBSD 4.3 ..and the bash shell...when at the actual terminal
> color works...however when i ssh to the box i dont get colors..
> I get all the other environmemt stuff ...typical bash stuff...but no color
> ....how do i change this ..  I woiuld really like colors when i ssh to the
> box.

That's most likely a terminal setup thing.  A combination of the TERM you
use on the client side, and the TERM settings of the ssh session.

When I use ssh to connect from one of the virtual consoles with TERM=cons25
to a Linux box, and I change my TERM to 'ansi' after I connect, colours
display correctly.

If I fire up screen(1) on my workstation, and set TERM=vt220 before I ssh,
then no colours are shown, and I have a monochrome terminal.

Giorgos Keramidas                           FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}      http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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