[COLUG] Re: Garbled TTY

[David Riggs]

Jim said
"On my box, any new getty resets the tty.
Logging out of a garbled tty resets the tty,
so I'm surprised that the garbling persisted to the login.
Typing a Control-d or <enter> at the login prompt also
causes a new (tty resetting) getty.
Even when I provoke a garbled tty from another terminal
with cat /boot/vm* >/dev/tty3, Control-d or <enter> at the
login prompt resets the tty.

BTW,

    echo -e '\ec' >/dev/tty3

can be copied from email and pasted elsewhere,
but Rob's '^[c' might be more portable.

Jim"



Thanks Rob and Jim, that is the trick I was looking for-- I even knew 
about directly addressing tty3, but did not know about the reset string.

I agree that a Control-d usual resets, and in fact I cannot reproduced 
the crazy problem of having even the login prompt garbled. Well, when it 
happens again, now I have the little tool to do the job.

David Riggs