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

[Will Langford]

I've seen a suggestion for trying ctrl-backspace.
I've also seen suggestions for looking into /etc/profile and
/etc/profile.d/* and different .profile files:

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1227133444078+28353475&threadId=495709

-Will

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:

> 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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