Thanks to Niall O Broin:
To get the prompt back to lower case, just type ^D (control-D) at the
LOGIN prompt.
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90
3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
-P.
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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Philip Hurvitz wrote:
> How do I get my console login prompt to go back to lowecase?
>
> The summary (Console going CAPS ONLY sometimes - SOLVED/SUMMARY) at the
> online site (http://scorpion.latech.edu/sunman.html) states:
>
> --------------------------
> SUMMARY
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 17:22:34 +0100
> From: bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
> Subject: Console going CAPS ONLY sometimes - SOLVED/SUMMARY
> Reply-To: bern@uni-trier.de
>
>
> > One of my Users reports every now and then that his ELC gives him
> > ALL THE \TEXT IN \CAPS ONLY like someone did a stty lcase.
>
> And sure enough, he *never* noticed anything wrong with the Caps Lock
> Key. Hold it, Fellows, my Mail Spool Area has only 110 Megs free! ;-)
>
> The correct Answer (100 Points and new Speed Record to Stephen Dowdy
> <dowdy@yoni.cs.colorado.edu> :-) is: If you give getty your Username
> in Caps only (like when you've accidentally pressed Caps Lock), it
> will assume that your Console doesn't have Lowercase, known Terminal
> Type or not. ARGH! And it's even in the getty Manpage <blush> ...
>
> Thanks again,
> J. Bern
>
> P. S.: Ian MacPhedran <Ian_MacPhedran@engr.usask.ca> just came in second.
> --------------------------
>
> The login man page states:
>
> If there are no lowercase characters in the first line of
> input processed, login assumes the connecting TTY is an
> uppercase-only terminal. It then sets the port's termio(7I)
> options to reflect this. This feature will be removed in a
> Solaris release shipped after January 1, 1997.
>
>
>
> But I can find no indication of how to reset the console's TTY back to lowercase.
>
> -P.
>
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> Phil Hurvitz | GIS Specialist | College of Forest Resources | 355 Bloedel
> Box 352100 | University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-2100, USA
> tel: 206.685.8179 | FAX: 206.685.3091 | e-mail: phurvitz@u.washington.edu
> WWW: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~phurvitz/
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