Listings Question About Ping

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:48:27 -0600, AK (Aaron) wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 15:13 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: 
> > When I do:
> >      ls /bin/ping
> > I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see 
> > anything special about its permissions. What's up? I ask because I've 
> > installed another program recently that has the same color display, and 
> > I'm trying to figure out why.
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> 
> Same here. Do : ls /bin/*  and you will see he programs hat display
> like: mount, umount, ping, su, fusermounnt, and ping6.
> 
> I can't figure out what these programs have in common to be displayed in
> a special color.

Look up the manual "man dircolors". It's documented.