topic Re: Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help??? in Operating System - HP-UX

Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help???

Craig A. Sharp — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:15:52 GMT

I have a user that when he telnets to my server he is able to work normally but everything he does ends up coming out on the printer. I have looked at profiles, etc...and I am not able to figure it out.

Thanks!

Re: Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help???

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:26:43 GMT

Shalom,

Probably a bad termcap configuration or configuration of whatever client the user is using.

If its a windows client, I suggest removal and reinstall.

SEP

Re: Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help???

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:35:31 GMT

OK, let's clarify a bit. Which printer? (A windows printer attached to his PC? A UNIX printer? If so, is it the default lp device?)

Assuming that this is a UNIX print job (and assuming that you are running standard lp), have you checked /var/spool/lp/log?

Precisely when do these print jobs occur? When he finishes the telnet session? Constantly as he types commands?

You really have to supply data if you expect much help. Miss Cleo thinks someone may have a script command in his .profile.

Re: Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help???

Bill Hassell — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:16:33 GMT

This is a local PC 'feature'. Terminal emulators such as WRQ's Reflection have a feature called LOG BOTTOM for HP terminal emulation. This is designed to work as a console hardcopy logging facility. Even HP terminals like the 700/94 can perform this logging to an attached printer. This logging can easily be enabled by accident because the user copied a binary file to the screen. Within the binary bytes was a series of codes that turned on this feature.

There is nothing in HP-UX that can copy the screen to a local printer on the PC.

Re: Everything a telnet user types is sent to screen and the printer..Help???

TwoProc — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:16:44 GMT

If random keystrokes were hit, or a binary were somehow copied/put to the screen -

a would do this very thing.

Has ctrl-p been hit? Has it been put on screen some other way?