sshd: colors in client?

rukhoven · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 2:30 pm Post subject: sshd: colors in client?

I decided to migrate my server from redhat to gentoo,.. works great! If have however a few unresolved issues.

When I ssh into the server that has sshd running , I can log in fine and do everything I want. When I use MC however, it doesn't display any colors in the terminal. It did display colors with the same setup under redhat. I would then get the exact same screen setup from an ssh client as I would on a VT on the server itself. I compared the sshd.conf files of both distro's but clouldn't find any differences.

Anyone know the trick?

I know this is a minor issue, but it irritates me not being able to get it the way I want...
(Searched MAN, Google and the forum search engine...)

PS. Running something like make menuconfig for kernel confugation, does display colors.. so the the system is capable of it.

Rukhoven
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Nitro · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 3:09 pm Post subject:

Maybe try setting your $TERM to 'vt102'

rukhoven · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 7:34 pm Post subject:

febisfebi · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 7:54 pm Post subject:

you can try

ElCondor · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 8:17 am Post subject:

actually, a export TERM=xterm should be enough, but the terminal itself maybe isn't the problem: just be sure, you have /etc/DIR_COLORS and your [ba]sh and profile configured correctly (for the used terminal) on the system you are logging in.

if you want a very colorful sample configuration, tell me to email you mine

hth

ElCondor

rukhoven · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 9:46 am Post subject:

Thank you all for your advice, but I can't get it to work.

I want to point put a few things:

I DO get color display when I ssh in to my server!
/usr/src/linux/make menuconfig
shows with the normal colors.
I DO get a color prompt.

I DON'T get colors in MC and that's mainly the problem.

maybe external logins (from telnet/ssh ) have a different setting for how the colors are displayed than normal logins on the physical server istelf. I howerver do not know where to find a settings file for this...

Ps: I have just tried it with telnet and is has the same problem...
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lude · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 10:12 am Post subject:

rukhoven · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 11:38 am Post subject:

Yes that last one brought the color back in my life

Now the asci codes are not dealt with properly , because the borders of MC are built up with the wrong characters.... The funtion keys also seem to have a different mapping all at once...

Well, i'm one step further now....

Thanks for all your help
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Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

Check the /etc/bashrc from your redhat distro (assuming you kept it).

For some reason an "if" section at the bottom of the default bashrc that does an eval dircolors and creates aliases will fail under gentoo... I just commented out the if and fi lines and got my colour back.

The point of the if statements is to make sure you're using bash so that the aliases are supported... but seeing as I don't use any other shells that reference bashrc, it was safe for me to do.

SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

Hi ElCondor

could you please post colorful sample configuration file? I wish to be able to decide which color for.
Of, if you prefer to mail it please let me know.

Thank you,
Spiro

59729 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 279

Instead of posting a new thread, I have a similar problem to..

1. When logging in as a regular user doing ls displays colors.
* Doing su or sudo ls doesn't display any colors?

2. piping output doesn't display colors, emerge -vp world | more or ls | more
* Getting rid of the pipes displays colors

Any suggestions on how to fix that?, my term is set to screen but I have the same problems if its set to xterm

mantis006 · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 26 Location: Toledo, OH

@ lappen

does more do color by default? i know less doesn't without using the -r flag (which is awsome!).

this is some aliases i put at the end of /etc/profile and just source it in my ~/.bashrc (works for me, obviously you could do it differently like put them directly into your user folder and roots if you want the same for su and sudo)