I added the following two lines at line 83 of /etc/rc.initial
> "'")
;;
Now, it should refresh if I press apostrophe, then <enter>. I chose that
key because it is next to the enter key so I can press them both at once.
I also changed ${opmode} on line 82 to have quotes around it (although I
don't know if this is required to make it work or not).
What I don't like about the 15 option is that it displays the banner twice
in a row and to me it just looks messy.
Moshe
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Steven Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed this recently too, and I could have sworn that hitting enter used
> to make a screen refresh, but I when I log back into a couple of different
> 1.2 and 1.2.3 boxes which are still in operation, I see the same result. In
> other words, this isn't a new 2.0 behavior unless something changed with my
> SSH client of choice, Putty.
>
> I would like to see a screen refresh for hitting enter as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Pingle [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] console menu closes when enter pressed
>
> On 12/15/2010 12:27 PM, Moshe Katz wrote:
> > I noticed that if I just hit enter on the pfSense console without typing
> > an option first, it exits the console. If I am on ssh, it closes the
> > connection and if I am on the local terminal, where I have it set to
> > prompt for a password, it asks the password again.
> >
> > Since option 0 can be used to do the same thing and there are times that
> > I would like to refresh the console (to re-display the connection status
> > at the top), I am wondering why it is set up to exit if no input is
> given?
> > One of my development boxes gets a new IP address regularly and I like
> > to refresh the console to see when the address has been successfully
> > acquired. The way it is now, I have to log in again and again or go
> > into another option, such as the shell, and then out of it again.
> >
> > I know where to modify this myself in /etc/rc.initial but before I do
> > so, I am curious as to the reason it works this way.
>
> I don't recall the specifics on why it was done that way, but you could
> use hidden menu option 15 to redisplay the banner section of the console
> menu. (Not sure why that's hidden, except perhaps to save space on the
> menu.)
>
> That, or hit 8 to drop to a shell and then exit (or ctrl-d) to go back
> to the menu.
>
> Jim
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