Dale> What is in your /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc file? That is the usual plain text file that describes which colours are used for which modes, extensions, ... I just didn't like the name DIRCOLORS or whatever is proposed as uppercase is so loud.
Dale> I have the eval `dircolors -b` in my /etc/profile my $HOME/.bashrc as Dale> well. It doens't seem to help. It happens when running the Makefile Dale> that changes shells within the Makefile itself. ie It is a /bin/sh Dale> script but calls the /bin/csh in the script. Could that mess things Dale> up? Sure. You can try any of these options (ordered in increasing uglyness): - say "unalias ls" just before the calling make, it will then do a plain old ls without colours (easy) - hardcode calls to ls in the Makefile or script to /bin/ls (ok) - disable the dircolors in /etc/profile and ~/.bashrc (ugly) - rewrite the csh script as sh or bash (very ugly) Hope this helps, -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd