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Skriven 2006-12-04 06:17:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: colors
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Dec 03 20:01 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> Meant dircolors.

 MK> Okay.  I was just checking.  I was sure that is what we were talking
 MK> about.

It is good to check.
Often I do not know myself these days.

 WC> Right in the file is says taking it local makes user colors
 WC> modifiable for that user.

 MK> True but then you'd have to set up a simular scheme within that user's
 MK> home account's .bash*'s files.  You could have a special ~/.DIR_COLORS
 MK> that gets called up by ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bashrc if you prefer)
 MK> with a 'eval `dircolors -f ~/.DIR_COLORS`' and that way it would be

Gotcha.

 MK> unique to that user and you could leave the default alone.  Of course
 MK> this is all changing and the newer slackware will be using a script in
 MK> /etc/profile.d/ for this and they no longer have an /etc/DIR_COLORS but
 MK> the result is the same.

 WC> Ran into another /etc file that dictates sytem parameters globally,
 WC> sysconfig or some such, kept notes.

 MK> I've seen that as a directory in LFS where system configurations
 MK> reside.  I haven't seen it as a file.

Perhaps confused on the point.
Can always return to it as I saved a relavent explaination.
Lots of notes in what I consider wetware scratchpad registers.

So far no-one outside of fidonet doesn't know I've had a stroke.
Still independent as of today.
Funny going from, oops that vanished.  

 WC> Heh, beat you to it, first thing I did was ls $HOME <g>
 WC> Let the system tell me what it's doing interactively.

 MK> Yep 'ls' will look at it as a variable.  Not so with 'cat' by default.

Must have done cat then as I got the directory and file listing.
Did I mention I get confused <g>
Mind trick, as it returned that listing thought I must have invoked ls.

Cat seems more likely.

Funny, has to be, what else are you going to do about it? < rhetorical>

Oh yeah, going from gui to CMDL was easy a couple days ago but 
coming back to KDE gave me fits.
Neither too easy at the moment.

Rememeber saying how things are funny that ought not to be?
whoami, cracks me up.

I know what PWD is too now having once thought who needs this?
Is there a "whereami" command in *nix <g>

Nope, just check, a shame.
I return no such command these days too.

 MK> Also 'printenv' will show you what global variables are currently set
 MK> on each login.

Hmm, seen something like this.

 MK>  That can be different for different accounts depending on how you set
 MK> them up.
 MK>  For instance you could use different languages and/or fonts for
 MK> different users.

 WC> Knew that also from "Unix Shell Programming" by Arthur - Burns
 WC> It's a special character.

 MK> Yes but also different shells and even bash has changed recently.  Not

Know some of this for instance ~/ used to be C shell.
This from three weeks school in 1992.

Odd what one remebers.
Remember Ph. No. from where I lived at age of 8.
Makes a secure password for Knode newsgroup secure password.

 MK> to say that isn't a good reference but sometimes things can get a bit
 MK> dated and the Unix shell ain't what she used to be ... sort of.  I

I sorta understand you.
Old texts generally give you the correct direction anyway
and I don't think any new texts are in the cards.
There's google and lots of howtos about though.

Took loads of aspirin last night for arthitis, today not looking
clever idea.
Bleeding into the brain as I text?
Funny, not funny, it is a puzzlement.
 
 MK> first encountered the c-shell and that was different from bash although
 MK> roughly they behave very simular, user dotfiles being one simular
 MK> trait.

More integrated and configured for C programming perhaps?
No real idea, not contemplating messing with it just now.

 WC> Need to read some of that over again, and then over again.

 MK> Yeah.  Definetly doesn't hurt.  I still say download a copy of
 MK> 'Advanced Bash Scripting' as it is more in sync with a modern Linux
 MK> system.

Oh, it's a download, missed that bit before.

 WC>  Crystal clear AAMOF no matter how poorly I express it.

 MK> That is what I thought.  :-)

 WC> Not sure you know what I mean now.
 WC> Putting a copy in wchirnside HOME so locally coloer customized.
 WC> Still intend to leave it owned by root.

 MK> In the /home accounts it should be owned by the user and user
 MK> read/writable.  I always make my dotfiles 600, read and writeable only

OK, getting there.
Knew about .file, created it as such.
Didn't know about keeping it  user as I'd not modified it
yet so it isn't effecting anything.
That ties in with permissions problem I had with firewall
accidently fixed.

 MK> by the owner.  Nothing in /etc should be owned by any individual user,
 MK> nevermind writable.

 Well that much I knew would be a given.
 Imagine 16 users all with root write privilege and the
 mess you would have. 

 MK>> You did ask.

 WC> I ask one simple question, invaribly it takes me all over the
 WC> place<g>
 WC> Instead of getting the one answer I get it and 12 more.

 MK> It only gets moreso as you delve into it.  12 isn't too bad as there
 MK> are probably an infinite amount of answers.  You are getting off easy
 MK> thus far.

Seems so so far.

 WC>  1 C++ I've little use for.

 MK> It's gotten worse too methinks.  Stick to C whenever possible.  99.99%
 MK> of the good stuff is still straight C.

Odd, gathered that in the three weeks we took that.
Rest of time before back broken spendt on COBOL and JCL, bleck.

 WC>  I've developed an addiction to Slackware.
 WC>  I like tools, you know the rest.

 MK> You betcha!  Slackware is the best ... so far.  I have yet to run
 MK> across a better Linux distribution.

 Well, time to make the coffee and ponder calling a hospital
 or letting nature take its' course.

Thats' funny.
Sorry Maurice, you are a nice guy so what I find amusing 
just now perhaps you not so much? < rhetorical>
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