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Re: Messed up console



On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:01:12AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> If I run 'reset', the text is fine.  BUT, if I then log out and log back
> in, the console is messed up again.

maybe its something inside your /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile
or equivalent thats causing this.

-- 
Adam McDaniel
Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.



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