From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 13:23:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20351 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20278 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27498; Wed, 27 May 1998 16:22:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199805272022.QAA27498@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Clear command locks up telnet window? In-Reply-To: <00dc01bd893c$a358f0c0$0cf896d0@work1.insolwwb.net> from Mike Grommet at "May 27, 98 01:56:56 am" To: mgrommet@insolwwb.net (Mike Grommet) Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Grommet wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Greets. > > we are setting up a down stream isp using freebsd and we've got everything > talking to each other just peachy. > > When I telnet into their server, I log in just fine. > I can ls, more, any generic unix command... take your pick, but > once I do a clear command, it locks up the telnet session. I can re-telnet > back in > and such > but this makes life really bad because I cant use pico or vi to edit config > files there. > > > HELP? > Here's an all-round wild guess: the clear command is making telnet think it's been escaped. Try using 8-bit clean, no-escape-char switches on your telnet client, namely: telnet -E8 downstream.host Maybe just the -L switch will work. Dave -- Is the true purpose of Unix its use, or its administration? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message