Thanks to Cathy Chandra for her reply, but I just figured it out, I think!?
I use Kea! (a terminal emulation program on Windows, NT) to log into the
server. This is what I was using when the problems started so I tried
Windows telnet and had some similarly strange behavior.(not that surprising
for windows) So, I made a new kea session from scratch, now it works fine.
The odd part is that when I logged onto the server at the console, the
console was messed up as well. Every letter I typed gave me a random
character(s), this is just in a console session at the prompt, not in vi.
So I rebooted the server, as the console did not resond to reset. Now
everything is working, but my old Kea session is still a mess. I am really
confused, as I have used this 'session' for over two years. Maybe some
config on my NT station got messed up?
Original post below:
This just started to happen. I have been configuring amanda and editing the
inetd.conf and services files when vi started to act strangely. I would
delete some text, start to type new text and the cursor would jump back
about 5 spaces. If I keep typing the cursor doesn't move, but the text gets
entered, in the place where it should be. Basically I can make changes like
I was blind folded. Just ignore what I see on the screen and keep typing.
When I save and exit and then reenter with vi, the changes are correct.
So I tried a 'reset' and did a 'cat inetd.conf' I got:
#
# This is added for Amanda support for the Travan Tape drive
#
#amanda dgram udp wait root /usr/lolla/libexec/amandad amandad
#amandaidx stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/amindexd amindexd
#amidxtape stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped
When I edit with vi I get:
#emon
/
# This is added for Amanda support for the Travan Tape drive
c
#l
#amanda
dgram udp wait root /usr/lolla/libexec/amandad amandad
#amandaidx stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
a
mindexd
#amidxtape stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped
I do a 'shift g'(capital G) to get to the last line and my cursor is on the
mindexd line. If I delete char's with 'x', different lines than the one I
am on move, very odd.
There is obviously something wrong with the terminals here, but I didn't
change anything recently except services and inetd.conf, whic I have
reverted back to the originals.
Any help would be appreciated!
Trevor Osatchuk
Process Solutions Canada Ltd.
Support and Integration Analyst
(780) 452-2227 Ext. 286
trevor.osatchuk_at_pscl.com
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 01:11:36 NZDT