Piping problems...

[Jonathan Caplette]

Hi guys...

Here's my problem... I've rebooted one of my server yesterday, for maintenance, and since I've rebooted it, I can't do any kind of pipe... like: | > < and all the others...

It doesn't give me any message of error I just get back to the prompt...

Does anybody have a clue of what this can be???

Thanks
Jonathan

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Check your stty parameter; by stty -a;probably those special charecters are assigned to to some other key strokes. you can change it by stty command. man stty for more details.

Goodluck,
-USA..

[Anthony deRito]

If you have one of those VT100 consoles, try holding down the Ctrl D key and cycle the console power to reset to defaults.

[harry d brown jr]

do a stty -a to see your settings, then do a stty sane to get back to normal. Also, what shell are you using? Try invoking ksh and see if you get the same results.

live free or die
harry

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

is this problem with only one userid and all the user ids??
Confirm this.

Also, as a test, mv the .profile , .exrc of a user id to .old files and relogin and try it. If this works, look at the profile and see whether there is any stty setting which is customized.

If this is a happening only a console, then you have terminal settings problem.

HTH
raj

[Bernie Vande Griend]

Does this happen for all userids or just root?
Does it happen on only the console or also if if you telnet in?

If its only on the console, then reset the console back to its defaults. If its only one userID, check stty -a for that user and also make sure its using the correct shell. Try using another shell such as ksh to see if the commands "|, >, <" work there. I also saw this happen once when the system had set up its own shell that was filtering and logging commands, the shell was written poorly and did not allow the use of these commands.
Good luck.

[Jonathan Caplette]

It's Okay guys.. I've found out that my root FS was full...

I cleaned it up and I'm back on track..

Thanks for the help anyway!