On 28.01.2016 12:48, Tim wrote:

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 03:58 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:

I noticed that when I ssh into a CentOS 7 Host I get slightly darker
colors in the ls output compared to the local (gnome-terminal) bash.
Since I'm using a dark background the darker blue used for directories
for example on the remote host is harder to read then the slightly
brighter blue used on the local system.
Does anyone have an idea why the colors are different and how to
change that?

Two approaches:

You have environment variables which say what colour codes to use with
which filetypes.  It would seem one system is merely using blue, the
other using bright and blue (it's a two-part thing).

Depending on what your terminal is, if you're using a graphical one, you
can change the palette used by each colour, and make your dark blue
brighter.

Thanks for the pointers everyone. There seems to be a subtle difference
in what "dircolors" reports and what is present in the LS_COLORS env
variable:

0 dennis@nexus ~ $ dircolors
LS_COLORS='rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:.....

0 dennis@nexus ~ $ env|grep LS_COLORS
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=38;5;33:ln=38;5;51:mh=00:.....

Notice how the entries in the dircolors" output have only two values but
the entries in the env variable three values associated with them.

Now I only need to figure out what exactly "di=01;34" vs. "di=38;5;33"
means...

Regards,
  Dennis