francis picabia wrote: > reset won't work as I cannot login to the tty. > > If there is a way to direct the reset to another tty > or tset has a way to do that it could help because only > ssh logins are working. You said you can log in with ssh. Log in with ssh and then redirect the output to the console as root. reset >/dev/console Although I can't remember if tset or reset operate on stdin like stty does. You might need to redirect stdin instead. reset >/dev/console </dev/console Also there is stty. I sometimes have used it to reset terminals. Use the -g option to dump the full terminal settings in an encoded way and then load them back in to the terminal. Note that stty uses stdin by default but can be specified explicitly with the -F option. stty -F /dev/console $(stty -g) But perhaps more easily understood by walking through this sequence: stty -g stty -g > /tmp/stty-g.good.out stty $(cat /tmp/stty-g.good.out) < /dev/console Bob
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