On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Kent Jantz wrote: > It doesn't appear to have changed but that file had "garbage" in it before I changed > it: > [snip] > > In any event if the above were the norm it doesn't explain why etc-update gets an > error and quits before any changes are made. Some of the etc-update entries won't > even get to the menu, it just displays part of the config file I selected and locks > up the terminal.
What is happening is the high bit characters (the garbage) are sending codes to your terminal, including it seems the "ENTER" or "RETURN" code which tell the terminal that the enter key has been pressed, causing etc-update to do things without you actually doing anything. If you just cp the config file to the new file (in my first email) this should solve the problem, assuming it is just this file that has problems, and not *any* time you do etc-update. Regards, alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
