update system???

[Huggy]

I changed some system settings and I think I need to up date but I don't know the command.

I changed some of the colours for files and what not and I have tried rebooting but that doesn't do it.

I get the .DIR_COLORS and put it in one of my home dir and renamed it to .dir_colors and changed some of the colours for the dir and different things but it will work...
PS it says to change the file name to that at the top of the file .DIR_COLORS.

[bigrigdriver]

There is a very big difference, in *nix OS's, between changing system settings (i.e., editing config files,etc), and updating the system. For example: if you edit a config file that changes the colours which are displayed when you cd to a directory and open a terminal and issue the command ls, it is necessary to log out, restart the X server (or possibly reboot), to get the system to recognize the changes you have made.
To update the system usually refers to updating the system database after installing/removing something, so that when you use a terminal to find something with the command "locate xyz", the system will show you where ALL files with "xyz" in the name are located. The command to update the system database is updatedb. It has nothing to do with changeing settings. It has everything to do with updating the database of installed components of the OS and files.
If you have changed colours in a file, and it still doesn't work after reboot, then I suggest that you changed the wrong file. I don't recall which file needs changing to get the colour changes to take effect on reboot.

[ 15 November 2001: Message edited by: bigrigdriver ]