Shell prompt - Problem Solved

[Aman]

Hi All

The echoing of received characters  got disabled, when I disable the shell
prompt. I used the command "stty echo -F /dev/ttyS0" to enable the echo of
the received characters

Regards
Aman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aman" <aman at mistralsoftware.com>
To: "linuxppc embedded" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:27 AM
Subject: Shell prompt - Command not visible


>
> Hi All
>
> To enable/ disable the shell prompt in linuxppc for IBM 440GP, I wrote two
> script files. They are as follows
>
> /**********************************************************************/
> /* enable_cli.sh: This script is to enable the shell prompt */
>
> grep -v 'sh:123:respawn:/bin/sh < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>
> /dev/console' /etc/inittab > inittab.tmp
> echo 'sh:123:respawn:/bin/sh < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>
/dev/console'
> >> inittab.tmp
> mv inittab.tmp /etc/inittab
> init q
> /**********************************************************************/
> /*disable_cli.sh: This script is to disable the shell prompt */
>
> grep -v 'sh:123:respawn:/bin/sh < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>
> /dev/console' /etc/inittab > inittab.tmp
> mv inittab.tmp /etc/inittab
> init q
> /**********************************************************************/
>
> To enable shell prompt ,  I give the command "sh enable_cli.sh, to disable
> the shell prompt "sh disable_cli.sh"
>
> First time things work fine ie enable/disable shell prompt.When enabled,
in
> the shell prompt I can execute the command from the shell prompt. If I
> disable the shell prompt and enable for the second time, I get the prompt
> and I can execute command in the prompt, however the commands I type on
the
> prompt is not visible.
> I type the enter key continuously I get the shell prompt like this
> sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#   sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#
sh-2.05a#
> sh-2.05a# sh-2.05a# sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#   sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#
> sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a# sh-2.05a# sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#   sh-2.05a#
> sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a#  sh-2.05a# sh-2.05a#
>
> Can anybody help me in solving this issue
>
> Regards
> Aman
>
>
>
>


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