On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ok, checked my computer today and found strange output > > on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages, > > > > [A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+ > > ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw > > > > [password: > > It's possible some other process opened the TTY and wrote garbage to > it. You can use lsof to see if any running process still has the TTY > open: > > lsof /dev/ttyS1 > > IIRC, ttyS1 is a serial port. If that's the case, this could also be > line noise on the serial cable. > > Or, as Chris Howie mentioned, it could be somebody banging on the > keyboard. In my house at least, that would be the most likely > explanation. :-)
But the output does have the appearance of escape sequences, perhaps intended for a printer or terminal. The password prompt would seem to imply there's a getty running on the device (tty1?, ttyS1?), and it's just responding to an apparent user login. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
