Your box may have been broken into. I've seen this happen in one case
when the rooted box had the console type changed. In this case, the
terminal type was changed to dumb.
Try typing:
echo $TERM
and see if you get a different result on the server with the problem.
I hope I'm wrong.
Fred
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
> Ok, the story goes like this:
>
> We have two identical redhat 6.2 servers. I personally use bash, almost everyone
>else uses tcsh. One day we woke up, and the home, end and delete keys weren't working
>on one of the servers anymore. Instead of going to the beginning or end of the line
>or deleting one character to the right, respectively, it prints the tilde (~)
>character. It's SUPER annoying because I use those keys all the time. I can get
>around it with ^a and ^d but it really bothers me.... what's worse is no one has done
>anything that should have caused this. The server has been up for like 45 days, and
>this happened all the sudden about a week ago.
>
> Oh I should say: these are co-located servers, we ssh to them, so it's not a local
>keyboard-keymap problem. I've tried using telnet instead of ssh, that doesn't help.
>
> Here's a sample output:
>
> On the working server:
>
> [root@csc004 httpd]# /bin/echo hi
> Here I have hit the home key after typing the command, then delete, once. As shown
>it properly removed the first character to the right - the beginning "/".
>
> Here's the exact same keystrokes on the broken server:
>
> [admin@csc003 remote]$ /bin/echo hi~~
> As shown, instead of going to the start of the line and deleting, it just prints "~~"
>
> This happens no mater what user or shell, also we've tried sshing/telneting from
>different boxen in our office with various kinds of keyboards, all the same problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Jonathan Wilson
> System Administrator
>
> Cedar Creek Software
> http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
>
> Central Texas IT
> http://www.centraltexasit.com
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