Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs,
Glad I don't use 'em. > in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it > did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename > -- including directories -- so that the latter are "mixed in" with > regular files in the output of 'ls'. I always preferred that to the alternatives. > The last time I ran into this putting 'export LC_COLLATE=C' in .bashrc > remedied the unwanted behaviour. No such luck this time. I was about to recommend that. That's what I use here: (0) heretic /home/keeling_ echo $LC_COLLATE C (0) heretic /home/keeling_ ls -AlF .Xauthority .fontconfig/ .lesshst .serverauth.3496 .xinitrc* .Xclients* .forward .linuxcounter/ .serverauth.3517 .xscreensaver .Xmodmap .funcs .list_signature .serverauth.3632 .xsession-errors .Xresources .gaim/ .macromedia/ .serverauth.3680 Mail/ .alias .gamix/ .mozilla/ .serverauth.4496 News/ .aptitude/ .gconf/ .mplayer/ .signature Xprintjobs/ .bash_history .gconfd/ .muttrc@ .slrn-tmpfile.asc bak/ ... > I notice in proftpd's postinst script a 'ListOption' configuration > variable was set. Did this somehow get lodged somewhere in a system > file such that even with the purge of proftpd it is still active? Could it have done something in the environment. Anything odd in a "set" listing? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]