[olug] Can't use Ctrl+C on my VPS

[Ryan Stille]

Will Langford wrote:
> s&g - from putty try typing in alt 003.  Hold alt and type 003 and release
> alt.  I'm not sure if this by passes anything that's hunting for a ctrl-c
> combination... it should send the ctrl-c character code to your putty
> window, but in other applications it doesn't activate the windows clipboard
> stuff.
>   
Alt + 003 doesn't do anything.  If I do Alt + 123 I get an "{", so that 
method of entering characters is working, but the 003 does nothing.
> When you attempted to ssh from another machine - were you doing so through
> putty -> other machine -> vps or ?  If you were, does ctrl-c work in this
> other host ?
>   

Yes I was using putty to the first Linux box, I should have mentioned 
that.  And yes Ctrl+C does work on there.

I may just have to open a ticket with the hosting provider, but I doubt 
they'd have a clue.

-Ryan
> -Will
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thank you for the suggestion.  It shows that intr = ^C
>>
>> I tried setting it to ^F and trying that, just in case the Ctrl+C was
>> being intercepted and canceled by the VPS server or something, but that
>> didn't work either.
>>
>> -Ryan
>>
>> David Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> Run stty -a and look at the setting for intr
>>>
>>> if it is not set to CTRL-C then run "stty intr ^C" where you actually
>>> type the "^" and the "C" characters
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Ryan Stille wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I have a hosted virtual private server that I am having an issue with.
>>>>> The Ctrl+C key doesn't work for me.  As you can guess this causes a lot
>>>>> of frustration!
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using PuTTy, and the host OS is CentOS 4.7.  There must be
>>>>> something different about the host OS settings, because I use this same
>>>>> putty config with many other CentOS servers and haven't had a problem.
>>>>> My term env variable is set to "xterm", the same as another Cent server
>>>>> I work on that works just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried jumping over to the VPS from another Linux server, and Ctrl+C
>>>>> wouldn't work then either, so I'm sure its not my ssh client.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ryan
>>>>>
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