background color of symlink in konsole terminal

What you are seeing is a broken link.

I was trying to figure out what those colors meant and using a search engine when I found your entry

Then I remembered that the colors were a feature of the ls command in UNIX/LINUX

I looked on the manual page for 'ls'; for my setup I had to go to the terminal command line and type "man ls"

The ls documentation said that you could use the command dircolors to set the colors, so I went to the manual page for dircolors "man dircolors". That page said I could see the database of settings by using the "-p" option. So at the command line, I typed "dircolors -p" this gave me several screens full of output so if your terminal emulator does not let you scroll back like mine does, you might want to use the 'more' command: "dircolors -p | more"

When I read through this output I found the codes for 'red' (31) and 'black background' (40). I also found the setting for ORPHAN 01;31;40. (01 is the code for bold.) The entry also has a comment explaining that ORPHAN is a broken symbolic link. A symbolic link were the file being pointed to does not exist.

I am new to Ubuntu, but I have played around with UNIX on and off for many years, sometimes I remember something useful.

I hope this helps you and others.

cheers.

So this isn't a true bug...however perhaps a more judicious choice of default background color for these is in order.

Black and white are common background terminal colors...so maybe by default this should be something else - like white on red (aka stop sign) or black on yellow (yield sign)

Tad

You are right.

This is a classic case of: "That's not a bug, its a feature"

I like your suggestion of black on yellow, i am not sure if that combination is already used in that list.

In any case, you can work with "dircolors" and set it how you want it to be. I have not worked with it, I think from what I read that if you just leave off the code for the black background (40), your background will remain unchanged (i.e. transparent).

I am new to Launchpad, I am not sure how these bugs are closed out. If you are ok with this, I guess it can be closed. On the other hand if your are expecting to use that LOG link and your real problem is that you do not have the "/usr/local/apache/domlogs/lb" file, then I am out of my element and someone else will have to help with that.

unfortunately the black on yellow is taken by SETGID and white on red is taken by SETUID.

I haven't played with dircolors either, but I believe you are right about leaving off the background setting would return it to transparent.

I agree this bug should be marked closed.

I still think black (or white) is a poor background choice, as stated above, so maybe someone upstream will change the default values to white(37) on magenta(45) or cyan(46). No, I am not expecting the LOG link to work. It was just the example.

closing the bug since the comments state that's not one