Killing the tty

thmnetwork · #1 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

It's happened multiple times and I can't figure out why it's happening or how to undo it, but hitting CTRL-S seems to disable the given TTY on 'nixes of various flavors. Killing the pid doesn't bring the tty back, I end up having to use other tty's until I reboot.

Anyone got some information for me?

methyl · #2 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

ctrl/S = XOFF (stop output to terminal).
The converse is ctrl/Q = XON (start output to terminal).

Thus if you type ctrl/S and the output stops, type ctrl/Q and the output will start again.

Hope this helps.

TonyLawrence · #3 (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by methyl

ctrl/S = XOFF (stop output to terminal).
The converse is ctrl/Q = XON (start output to terminal).

Thus if you type ctrl/S and the output stops, type ctrl/Q and the output will start again.

Hope this helps.

And if you have IXANY set, then ANY key will restart it.

(which is why IXANY is commonly set).

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