[LewsTherinTelemon]

Hey cjcox,

I did not just paste the lines into bash - I have them in my .bashrc, and if I examine them, I see they are being defined and exported correctly, for example:

paracelsus@Callandor:~> env | grep -i term
LESS_TERMCAP_mb=
LESS_TERMCAP_md= (displays in red)
LESS_TERMCAP_me= (displays in blue)
TERM=xterm
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=
LESS_TERMCAP_us=
LESS_TERMCAP_so= (displays in grey)
LESS_TERMCAP_se=
COLORTERM=1

That is what is so odd about this. There they are, displayed in color, everything looks great. echo $PAGER shows less is set, and termcap is installed - but man pager are still not in color. (I did comment out unset termcap in /etc/profile - made no difference.)

Would you mind sharing your complete /etc/profile, .bashrc and what versions of termap and less you are using?

Thanks!
Pete