Re: [expert] weird less problem

2001-09-22 Thread Ray Warren
Just for info purposes,the problem with less was apparently caused by having the instruction : setterm -powerdown 30 in /etc/profile.i have no idea why that statement resulted in the symptoms I had ,but once I removed it everything was back to normal.Is there another way to shut off an inactiv

Re: [expert] weird less problem

2001-09-16 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Ray Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I did have group permissions on the ttys showing as write permitted but I > haven't found out where it's getting set at.The umask is handled by mandrake > Security and should be set to 022 if I'm reading the file right.the group tty > appears to have a

Re: [expert] weird less problem

2001-09-14 Thread Ray Warren
On 13 Sep 2001, at 22:59, Jaime Herazo B . wrote: > The correct settings for the ttys are, the logged user as owner, "tty" as group, > and permissions 600 (read-write for the user, nothing else). > > I don't really know if this helps you, but it may, so i post it. > I did have group permissio

Re: [expert] weird less problem

2001-09-13 Thread Jaime Herazo B .
* Ray Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > if I attempted to use less as a normal user,with a filename as > input,the only output I receive is ESC[14;30] and Lines 1-1/1(END).If the I've seen that before, because i mucked around on the inittab to make runlevel 4 the environment i like when i b

[expert] weird less problem

2001-09-11 Thread Ray Warren
I'm running mandrake 8 on an older motherboard with a pentium mmx 200mhz and 98 MB of memory.After I upgraded to a generic 2.4.9 kernel I found that if I attempted to use less as a normal user,with a filename as input,the only output I receive is ESC[14;30] and Lines 1-1/1(END).If the input is