Tilman Schmidt wrote: > James Harper schrieb: >> I'm not sure if this is just something peculiar to my configuration, but >> in the text console for bacula, if I type a command then backspace over >> it then press enter, bacula still acts as if I typed the command, or at >> least part of it. >> >> Does anyone else see this or is it just me? > > I get wildly varying results with line editing in bconsole between > different systems. On some systems, I can edit the command on the > screen as expected, with backspace erasing characters from the end as > usual, but when I finally type enter what gets sent as command is > obviously not what I last saw on the screen. On others, hitting > backspace once skips to a new line as if it had deleted the entire > command, so line editing is guesswork at best, and never seems to > result in what I intended. Bconsole itself doesn't really help in > identifying the problem, since it never tells me what was the actual > command it thought I sent or what was specifically wrong with it. > > On a single one of my systems, line editing actually works as expected, > but I don't know why. > > All systems are running some version of Suse Linux. The one where line > editing works correctly has openSUSE 10.3 and Bacula version 2.0.3 > which came with that. One of those which skip to a new line as soon as > I try any line editing at all has the same versions. Most others are > older Suse releases with self-compiled Baculas from the 2.2.x range. > > Go figure.
I suspect readline. Different versions and/or options. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
