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

Ryan Stille ryan at cfwebtools.com
Wed Nov 19 20:56:27 UTC 2008


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
>   
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>> 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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