Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4

[Timothy King]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Timothy King <tim <at> timothyking.com> writes:
>
>   
>> The re-install fixed the path problem, but I still have strange things
>> going on with the directory colors.  Attached is a screen print. 
>> Notice some directores are the correct blue on white while others are
>> black on green.
>>     
>
> Not a bug, but a feature improvement that you picked up by
> upgrading coreutils.  Reread
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-01/msg00019.html,
> including the bit about dircolors adding new colors for
> coloring world-writable directories that don't have the sticky
> bit set (commonly recognized as a potential security hole).
>
>   
Okay, now I'm trying to figure out how dircolors works.  I've modified 
/etc/LS_COLORS, then have done things like

dircolors -b /etc/LS_COLORS > MyColors
. ./MyColors

but it doesn't affect the display.  The docs on dircolors mention a 
compiled-in database but do not explain how to update it.

Tim

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