Summary: Wierd term problem

From: Michael Cunningham (malice@exit109.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 13:22:51 CDT


Thanks to:
Jonathan Loh
Rob Rheault
Kevin Sheehan

For their quick response..

Basically everyone said that the patch didnt cause it
and probably some fool modified root's .profile
and manually set TERM variables and stty variables

Well they were right.. Not sure who mucked with it
But its fixed and working fine now. I feel like a
fool for not checking that file first myself.

Thanks Guys,

Mike

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Michael Cunningham wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I am having a strange problem with solaris 2.6 and I think the latest
> patch cluster on an ultra2.
>
> I just installed this cluster a few days ago and now I am having a wierd
> term problem. Before the cluster everything worked fine..
> When I telnet to the system from my desktop (viewing it on an xterm)
> and I log in as a user everything is fine.. it recognizes that I should
> be using the xterm term type and backspace..etc. are set properly.
> But (heres the problem), when I su - to root from this user or any other
> user the system suddendly thinks I am using the sun-cmd term type and the
> term gets hosed up. Reseting it back to xterm (TERM=xterm;export TERM)
> does not fix it. Oh and another wierd thing.. the backspace gets hosed
> so that if i type
>
> > ls -al
>
> And I go to delete what I just typed by using the backspace key
> it ends up not deleting it but changes it sorta.. it really deletes it
> but it doesnt show that it deletes it.
> It ends up looking like..
>
> > l s - a l
>
> I tried reseting the erase key (stty erase) to the delete key but that
> doesnt help either.. still does the same problem.
>
> Basically I need to figure out what patch in the cluster caused this
> screwup and how I can fix it.
>
> Heh.. if any of that made any sense:)
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
> I will summarize..
>
> Mike
>

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