[27286] in Athena Bugs

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Solaris terminal reuse

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Fri Feb 13 12:39:28 2009

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:39:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902131228340.14875@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902131236510.26114@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 0.00
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Kevin Chen wrote:

> This is a followup to the thread "Solaris terminal reuse" in 
> bugs[27054,27055,27057,27058,27059,27060,27068,27153], which I reported in 
> 2007, and I hadn't encountered or heard from other people about again, until 
> now.
>
> This happened on a different Solaris machine this time -- gaston.mit.edu. 
> When I logged in, I got:
>
> kechen@eevee:~$ ssh kchen@gaston.mit.edu
> kchen@gaston.mit.edu's password:
> Athena Server (sun4) Version 9.4.41 Fri Aug 31 22:02:32 EDT 2007
> Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
> Thus no job control in this shell.
>
> Then later, I started getting jdreed's zwgc -ttymode zephyrs.  This appears 
> to be different from the more common zwgc port reuse problem, since I don't 
> run zwgc.

Other funniness:

Pressing C-c at the Athena prompt results in ^C being printed:

[~ gaston]% ^C^C

Pressing tab results in a literal tab, and backspace results in ^?.

--
Kevin Chen

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post