Bug 57820

Summary:	no color in 'ls' output for NIS users under X
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele>
Component:	fileutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2001-12-25 00:32:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
There is no color in ls output in the following conditions: (a) the user is
not local but rather served by NIS, (b) ls is invoked in any graphical
terminal window under X with any type of shell.

"ls --color" forces fine output. It's only "ls" defaults are messed up or
missing for NIS-served users. Without X it works fine too.

This is just to repeat the forgotten bug 54309.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try "ls" for NIS user under in Xterm, for example. No color.
2. try "ls --color" for the same user. Yes color.
3. switch to text mode. try "ls" and "ls --color". Both color. 
4. for local users there is no difference. Always color.

	

Actual Results:  The ls output for a networked user under X is not in color. 

Expected Results:  ls for network and local users should be the same. Local
users get their output in color.

Additional info: I believe that the problem first showed up after bash
upgrade to 2.05 from rawhide last summer. tcsh etc, however, have the same
problem.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-10 18:04:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54309 ***

Comment 2 Alexei Podtelezhnikov 2002-01-25 08:30:17 UTC

NIS users in our heterogeneous environment had defaults to /bin/tcsh, as it's 
more common in other unixes. 

Here is what happenes for users with tcsh.
Scenario 1. Logging in in virtual console envokes /etc/csh.login and they see 
ls colors.

Scenario 2. Firing up a terminal window under X misses /etc/csh.login and 
envokes only /etc/csh.cshrc. No calls to /etc/profile.d/*.csh are made 
resulting in non-color ls.

Using bash as default invokes /etc/bashrc with or without X and users see 
colors.