Having installed fileutils, I tried to set up ls to use colors. On other Linux and SGI boxes, I use the following line in my .login:
eval `dircolors $HOME/.dircolors` ".dircolors" was obtained by using "dircolors -p > .dircolors" This has worked on all the other OSes. But with OS X, I get the following error: Unknown colorls variable `do'. I traced this down to the following line in the .dircolors file (obtained from the built in database): DOOR 01;35 # door I'm not sure what a DOOR file type is (it's next to DIRs, LINKs, and SOCKs, so it's some sort of special file), but it seems that dircolors as compiled out of the box on OS X doesn't know what to do about DOORs and it breaks. Commenting out the DOOR line gets rid of the error. It's an easy patch to comment out the line during compilation (in fileutils-4.1/src/dircolors.h and/or dircolors.hin). Do DOORs just not exist in OS X leading to the error, or is dircolors missing something when compiled on OS X to make it understand DOORs? Hanspeter -- Science is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -Richard Feynman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
