Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de wrote:

israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu schrieb:

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Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old CentOS4x... I'm using:

[root@domian:~]$ echo $TERM xterm

Take a look at:

# cat /etc/profile.d/vim.sh if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then [ -x /usr/bin/id ] || return [ `/usr/bin/id -u` -le 100 ] && return # for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim fi

So you do not get vim for root...

Hth Rainer

Right answer. I just checked on my CentOS 4.5 box and:

[root@fraud default]# which vi alias vi='vim' /usr/bin/vim

but on my CentOS 5.1 box root gets:

[root@bend etc]# which vi /bin/vi

while users get:

[dave@bend ~]# which vi vi: aliased to vim

So vim is probably correctly installed on the 5.1 box but root no longer gets an alias to it. This is actually correct since root should be able to log in and have full functionality with just the programs in /bin, /sbin, etc. In particular, root shouldn't be dependent on anything under /usr.

Cheers, Dave