On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now here's something strange. My alias is set as: > > alias ls='ls --color=tty', which based on looking at my other Fedora boxes > is standard, methinks. However, if I do a /bin/ls of any directory that > hangs with 'ls' only, it works perfectly. If I do not use the full path > (i.e. ls <dir> instead of /bin/ls <dir>) it hangs. > > But, it doesn't hang every time I use 'ls' instead of '/bin/ls', only on > certain directories. I'm trying to get an strace now, but wanted to try > every other option I could think of first. I think I was seeing the same thing, now that you mention it. Something about the --color option was causing a problem. reid