Comments on: Service Console Directory Listing Text Color in PuTTY

By: paul

paul — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:15:26 +0000

thanks, i was looking for exactly this information. it took me a while to find it (well about 20 mins googling), but imagine this…i’m pretty new to linux and manage my box using Putty! from a windows box! and i was wondering exactly what the green highlighted directory meant! so this was extremely informative for me. now i’m left with the question, and next google search, do i need to change permissions on that dir/file…

By: talon

talon — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:32:24 +0000

Good tutorial, I am just a beginner and was wondering how to find the colors and what they mean. Thanks and don’t let the douches get you down lol.

By: Christopher Kusek

Christopher Kusek — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:55:04 +0000

I agree with Mr Hmmmm, and Jason I think you should rename this blog from “boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist” to “botched.net – Virtual Stupid Head” because you are clearly ignorant to what the significance of what Mr Hmmmm was declaring.

Reading between the lines, because clearly and obviously you’d be unable to,

The reason that some of the text is ‘blue’ and some of the text is ‘red’ is because red files are EVIL!!!! Why would you even have those files on your system? OMG R U TEH DEVIL?!? Seriously Jason, wake up and smell the mocha chai latte grande with half soy, half powdered creamer, and half water YEA BAIBEE i DID SAY 3 HALVES! because Three halves makes EVIL RED FILES.

So, I want you to march out and delete those dark vile files from your system, and who knows… maybe if you’re a good boy, all of your files will turn into PRETTY GREEN BACKGROUND FILES

Alright, now that my tirade is over:

Wow, nice tutorial explaining something which for the most part may be overlooked by others and often not documented. Hey Mr Hmmmm, this post is clearly not for you, because you GET it, it’s for the people who wake up each day and go WTF WHY R MY FILES RED?! HELP! and they go calling the geek squad who formats their machine and loads XP.

So, keep up the good work Jason, and get some visine in your system.

(Visine: The old beta name for the Netware to Microsoft migration tool )

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:21 +0000

I’m no Linux or Unix expert, nor do I claim to be. I was born and raised on Commodore, MS-DOS, and then Windows. I more or less skipped Linux (and Mac) and only used it when there was a business requirement to do so later in my career. Thank you for your observation.

By: Mr. Hmmmm

Mr. Hmmmm — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:23:50 +0000

This post kind of makes me cringe due to the explicit reference of this being something you can do “in Putty.” Not in an ssh session, which would be more descriptive, or on the Linux command line in general (which the Service Console implements), which would be more accurate, but “in Putty.” I’m no rabid foaming at the mouth Linux fanboi, but the wording used in this post is suggestive of, if not a total ignorance of Linux and UNIX platforms, a relative ignorance towards their fundamental underpinnings.