Re: Fedora, XTerm and backspace

From: Trog Woolley (trog_at_email.fake)
Date: 04/12/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:42:10 +0000 (UTC)

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway matteo.corti@gmail.com typed:
> Hi,
>
> thanks, in fact the settings for erase are different. The problem is
> that I don't know which configuration file sets them differently.
>
> Both the user account and the root account do not have particular
> settings (e.g., no .termcap) and both are just sourcing /etc/bashrc in
> their .bashrc file.
>
> In /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (never chaged) I do not see any setting
> that shoud have a difference if the user is root or something else.
>
> I could set the right value for erase with stty but I was curios to
> know where in standard FC3 installation is a setting that might cause
> this behavior.

I had a similar problem; we have a bunch of FC2 servers at work. After we
upgraded them to FC3, erase had changed from ^? (7f) to ^H (08). I couldn't
fathom why or where stty is set, so I just added a line to /etc/bashrc to
mend the problem. 

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