Re: Messed up console

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hammant@panther.adelphi.edu>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0400, dman wrote:
 
> What happens if you run 'reset' in the console?  I know that if one
> cats a binary file a similar situation can happen (some binary
> characters are seen as control characters and changes the terminal
> settings).  Running 'reset' resets the terminal to the defaults.  It
> could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
> handling properly.

Well, I figured out what it was--for some reason, /etc/motd was full of
binary junk, that was of course being loaded every time I logged in.

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Thomas J. Hamman
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