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Re: [Xen-users] Can Ctrl - ] to exit console be changed?

To: Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Can Ctrl - ] to exit console be changed?
From: Harald Koenig <H.Koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:00:57 +0100
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On Nov 30, Tim Post wrote:

> I'm sure its possible to change the escape key sequence to exit the
> console from ctrl - ] to something else, I'm just not sure where to do

I doubt it's possible.  I had the same problem and found the following comment

        http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-12/msg00721.html

        Can you imagine the support headache this would provide? Think of all
        the people coming on IRC and asking and each one being told a different
        answer.
        ...
        I question the benifit of this.

I myself question this argumentation...


> it. The system is in production so I hope not to do too much trial and
> error with regards to editing stuff in Xen :) If these go down for more
> than a minute or two I'll have a not so happy boss on my hands.
> 
> Anyone else run into this?

yes!

not really what you've asked for, but you can easily change the escape char 
for telnet! I'm using CTRL-\  (like good old kermit kermit;) with

        telnet -e "^\\" remotehost

or as permanent default

        echo 'DEFAULT set escape ^\\' > ~/.telnetrc

just make sure you disable the QUIT char in your terminal settings,
which pretty often is set to CTRL-\ too (check with "stty -a", using 

        stty quit ""



Harald Koenig
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