OK, this should be an easy fix but I can't find it, and it's strictly a cosmetic's issue.
on our older Gentoo systems if you do an ls -a it orders the results with all the . files ordered alphabetically then all the non-hidden files alphabetically. it also sorts with capitals first.
on the new Centos 5.3 systems ls -a returns all the files sorted alphabetically with capital's and smalls being equal and the . at the start of a hidden file appears to be ignored.
There are no alias's in place on either system.
eg.)
Gentoo: ------------ $ ls -a . .. .Xauthority .bashrc .omega Documents alpha scripts
Centos: ------------ $ ls -a . .. alpha .bashrc Documents .omega scripts .Xauthority
I'd prefer to see things the Gentoo way. Any idea's?