> Now, the XTERM strangeness. Ctrl-S locks up my xterm input. (mouse menus
> with ctrl still work) You can probably try it yourself and see. Is that
> supposed to happen? Could I fix it?
>
> (I remember vaguely that emacs help tutorial said something about Ctrl-S
> messing up on some terminals, but I can't recall if it's relevant to
> this.)
^S is historically the XOFF character, used by XON/XOFF flow control. You
can "unlock" the terminal with ^Q, the XON character.
(Will try to answer your proftpd question once I look something up about
it...)
Shawn