You're scaring me. But no, I'm getting the same from both of them:
[root@working_host RPMs]# echo $TERM
xterm
[root@corrupt_host Dl]# echo $TERM
xterm
I get that with both tcsh and bash.
Any more ideas?
At 05:17 PM 12/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Your box may have been broken into. I've seen this happen in one case
>when the rooted box had the console type changed. In this case, the
>terminal type was changed to dumb.
>
>Try typing:
>echo $TERM
>
>and see if you get a different result on the server with the problem.
>
>I hope I'm wrong.
>
>Fred
>
>
>Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Ok, the story goes like this:
>>
>> We have two identical redhat 6.2 servers. I personally use bash, almost everyone
>else uses tcsh. One day we woke up, and the home, end and delete keys weren't working
>on one of the servers anymore. Instead of going to the beginning or end of the line
>or deleting one character to the right, respectively, it prints the tilde (~)
>character. It's SUPER annoying because I use those keys all the time. I can get
>around it with ^a and ^d but it really bothers me.... what's worse is no one has done
>anything that should have caused this. The server has been up for like 45 days, and
>this happened all the sudden about a week ago.
>>
>> Oh I should say: these are co-located servers, we ssh to them, so it's not a local
>keyboard-keymap problem. I've tried using telnet instead of ssh, that doesn't help.
>>
>> Here's a sample output:
>>
>> On the working server:
>>
>> [root@csc004 httpd]# /bin/echo hi
>> Here I have hit the home key after typing the command, then delete, once. As shown
>it properly removed the first character to the right - the beginning "/".
>>
>> Here's the exact same keystrokes on the broken server:
>>
>> [admin@csc003 remote]$ /bin/echo hi~~
>> As shown, instead of going to the start of the line and deleting, it just prints
>"~~"
>>
>> This happens no mater what user or shell, also we've tried sshing/telneting from
>different boxen in our office with various kinds of keyboards, all the same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Jonathan Wilson
>> System Administrator
>>
>> Cedar Creek Software
>> http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
>>
>> Central Texas IT
>> http://www.centraltexasit.com
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