Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad
On Friday 01 July 2016 18:18:42 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 17:59:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 01 July 2016 17:52:08 Curt wrote:
> > > On 2016-07-01, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > >> Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and
> > > >> certainly in a typical graphical terminal):
> > > >>
> > > >> stty sane
> > > >
> > > > No output in either.
> > >
> > > What were you expecting?
> >
> > Henrique, who is being very helpful, asked me to try it, so I tried it.
> > I had no expectations.
>
> stty is used to change and print terminal line settings. I've kept
> away from it for many years. You can see what your settings are with
> 'stty -a'. I have the interupt signal as 'intr = ^C'. ^C is ctrl-C.
>
> 'sty sane' gives no output but sets the terminal line settings to
> various reasonable values. The manual lists them.
Thank you! That makes sense. Now I shall try stty -a - both on the target
machine and on my own. ;-)
Lisi
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