Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-09 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote: I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-09 Thread Ray Leventhal
Dag Wieers wrote: You may be interested in a blog post of mine: Improving Putty settings on Windows http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows If you have other best-practices, add a comment :) Thanks, Dag, Thanks for that *very* helpful post. Putty is now far

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-09 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dag, I thought I had the latest version, but alas, I found I did not. Grabbed the latest version and I must admit, those few tips you put in your blog really makes a huge difference. Putty always appeared to be a slow updated package, and while I don't use it much, I do have to have it

[CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our linux connections and I have

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sam Drinkard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread David Mackintosh
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:55 -0400: Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty probably or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen? works fine here. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Drinkard wrote: Looks like I shot myself in the foot after all. I just checked the bold foreground color, and sure enough, it was the same as the background color. Changed that to red, and it works as advertized now. Sorry for the unnecessary postings. Should have checked there first