change tty text and background colour?

[lodore]

Hello,
whats the easiest way to change the white text and black background for tty 1-6?

I tryed this (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/misc/144645-change-boot-tty-colors.html) reply 4 but then i got error message on boot saying id field to long 6 times and tty's didnt seem to work...
X started fine thou so i just put file back.

[GlobalForce]

You get this sorted or how'd you have <code>your line setup?</code>

[lodore]

Hello,

I modified this
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

to this
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty6

on boot it said to much code for the id field i think.

the tty's didnt seem to work.
X started fine so I logged in and changed back to original and tty;s worked again.

[iceni60]

maybe ttys use the .bashrc in the etc directory. try searching for this -
change tty text /etc/.bashrc

edit: i mean /etc/bash.bashrc

ok, i'll try and write something that makes sense. i don't know for sure, but the ttys probably use the default shell - 'echo $SHELL' you can change the way they look, if you're using bash like me, in ~/.bashrc for the user and for root in /root/.bashrc or maybe the etc one i mentioned before.