topic Re: locking and unlocking terminal in Operating System - HP-UX

locking and unlocking terminal

Shivkumar — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:42:04 GMT

Hi,

i am using xterm of reflection X software tool to connect hpux boxes. It seems there some key strokes which if typed unknowingly locks the terminal and no further character can be typed on the terminal. It locks the terminal. What are the key sequences be typed to unlock the terminal ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: locking and unlocking terminal

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:43:29 GMT

Hi Shiv:

You can try:

# stty sane

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: locking and unlocking terminal

Lee Harris_5 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:12:01 GMT

Hi Shiv,

By default in most terminal emulators, the keystrokes CTRL+S and CTRL+Q perform a flow control function equivalent to Xon and Xoff.

CTRL+S will perform Xoff and freeze your terminal. If you get into this situation, press CTRL+Q to perform Xon which will make the terminal start responding again.

Hope that helps - Lee

Re: locking and unlocking terminal

Arunvijai_4 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:20:05 GMT

Hi Shiv,

You can probably use the following,

http://docs.hp.com/en/B1171-90147/rn03.html

-Arun

Re: locking and unlocking terminal

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:27:40 GMT

Shalom Shiv,

This should be preventable.

There is probably a conflcit between termcap, TERM type and stty settings.

Check stty -a

You should be able to prevent the locking.

SEP